Is there a reason why the IO dispatcher doesn't us...

# coroutines

[Jokubas Alekna]

Is there a reason why the IO dispatcher doesn't use virtual threads if they are supported by the JVM?

[Sam]

It's mentioned in this talk:

https://youtu.be/zluKcazgkV4▾

[kevin.cianfarini]

The summary is that the coroutines folks don't want to lose the shared threads between the io dispatcher and the default dispatcher. To preserve that functionality they're waiting for an API from loom to be available that they can integrate with.