As EventEmitter's ultimate fate is being decided in #4149, small steps should be taken to start de-coupling it from Rx, since it is an abstraction of Rx. One small step to disambiguate EventEmitter from Subject is to change the next method to emit.
Note that in #4149, there's more substantial discussion about how to properly leverage Observables inside the Angular codebase.
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EventEmitter's ultimate fate is being decided in #4149, small steps should be taken to start de-coupling it from Rx, since it is an abstraction of Rx. One small step to disambiguateEventEmitterfrom Subject is to change thenextmethod toemit.Note that in #4149, there's more substantial discussion about how to properly leverage Observables inside the Angular codebase.