Reactive Programming - RxJS vs EventEmitter in Node.js

Recently I've started looking at RxJS and RxJava(from Netflix) libraries which work on the concept of Reactive Programming. Node.js works on the basis of event loops, which provides you all the arsenal for asynchronous programming and the subsequent node libraries like "cluster" help you to get best out of your multi-core machine. And Node.js also provides you the EventEmitter functionality where

[yosuke_furukawa]

そうなんだよね。俺も疑問に思ってた。いわゆるRxJSとEventEmitterって何が違うんだと思ってた。抽象度が違うのかなと思ってたけど、大体合ってた。