<@U5R5FGVH7> Yes, start a new Thread that runs the...

# announcements

[karelpeeters]

@napperley Yes, start a new Thread that runs the loop.

[napperley]

How would the low CPU usage be achieved without resorting to the dreaded while (true) { // ... }

[karelpeeters]

Use a SyncronizedQueue<Event> for the events, and just call poll() on it in the while loop, it will automatically wait until there are events and call put(event) when there's a new even, it will automatically resume the main loop.

[napperley]

Appears as though readLine() doesn't work in Kotlin 1.1.3-2 (not in plain Kotlin programs). Should block to read in keyboard input (expected behaviour) but skips the process instead. Strange thing is readLine() works fine in the Kotlin REPL 😕 .

[napperley]

Rather disturbing that earlier Kotlin 1.1 versions are also affected by the same issue ☝️ .