The biggest difference between Knockout JS and RxJS is that signals have a value to them. And the second difference is derived data can get complicated and messy with side effects writing to other signals. This mess is actually what existed in Knockout JS which aided its departure from mainstream front end. What happened though since then is libraries like mobx basically solve this where instead of viewing deriving values, you can view these as variables rather than messages.

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