I'd like to see a

sleep(Duration)

method or even

Duration.sleep()

in Kotlin (similar to the

TimeUnit.sleep

method), instead of having to use

Thread.sleep(duration.inWholeMilliseconds)

. The less anyone has to make assumptions about the system's default time unit, the better.

You can use a non-blocking

delay(duration)

instead from the coroutines library

In my case, I'm not in a coroutine, so I'm unable to call

delay

directly.

Write an extension function? I personally havent had the need to sleep threads directly since using coroutines so I feel the use case might be small

I intend to add an extension method if I need it again (I just converted a Java file to Kotlin and did some

Duration

conversions, coming across the issue).