Why `collectAsState` under the hood does use `collect` and not `collectLatest`?

# compose

[Valentin Gusselnikov]

Why collectAsState under the hood does use collect and not collectLatest?

[Stylianos Gakis]

That would be incredibly confusing if it just did so internally without explaining it in the name of the function

[Albert Chang]

The difference between them only matters if you run some cancellable actions (typically suspend functions) in the collect block. In collectAsState(), there is only a value = it call which is not cancellable anyway, in which case collect() should be used because it has less machinery.