RxJS uses observables to describe streams, which are not the same as observables are in knockout. The problem is everybody started using the term observables even with different styles of reactivity. So I was looking around for names and one of the libraries I was really inspired by called SJS called them signals. And basically from that point, I was like, okay, I'm not calling these observables. I'm going to start calling them signals. It's kind of cool because it kind of differentiated the fair view has the style of reactivity too.

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