So the two things im missing before im sold on kto...

# ktor

[jkbbwr]

So the two things im missing before im sold on ktor is the ability to do work after the request has finished.
And SSE

[elizarov]

GlobalScope.launch { ... } gives you that and SSE is trivial to implement.

[jkbbwr]

Im assuming globalscope.launch is the context for coroutines, and im assuming that I could hold a coroutine channel inside an sse handler and feed it data?

[elizarov]

To implement SSE you don’t let let request terminate. You keep responding indefinitely.

[Deactivated User]

You can implement SSE like this, though websockets are more widely used and supported:
https://github.com/ktorio/ktor-samples/blob/e9bbc563fa9bda5fda9f1fb1c41b20bb85beea70/other/sse/src/SseApplication.kt