Anyone know if there are any plan for Kotlin to support async await as well as coroutines, swift use...

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[Fred Bowker]

Anyone know if there are any plan for Kotlin to support async await as well as coroutines, swift uses async await and C# has had it for a long time, async await is fairly easy to understand and keeps code clean, it would be great if it came to Kotlin so we could use the same paradigm in swift and kotlin

[hfhbd]

Do you mean Swift interoperability?
Kotlin has suspend language support, which needs this https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines library

[Fred Bowker]

No I was meaning support for the async await keywords to allow you to run async code while writing the code in a synchronous fashion.

do {
        let result = try await getInvites(loggedOnUserId)
        invitesEnvironmentObject.replace(invites: result)
      } catch {

        showExceptionModal = true
      }

In swift I can write to call an async method

[hfhbd]

In Kotlin, async is called suspend.

[hfhbd]

For await, you need a CoroutineScope, which is provided by the library.

[elizarov]

You can get short comparison and contrast with C# approach here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hb0hfHVWCS0

[Fred Bowker]

I can do async code through coroutines, but I think that is a different approach than how C# and Swift do async await

[Fred Bowker]

Ok thanks, for the link, looks like I’ll have to learn coroutines

[Fred Bowker]

@elizarov cheers for your work on Kotlin, I’ve been a Java dev for years but for my startup chose kotlin as I far prefer the less verbose syntax

[Jim]

Roman's KotlinConf videos detail why Kotlin uses another approach compared to C#.

I highly recommend watching them to get a bigger picture.

[Fred Bowker]

perfect thanks for the link that clears things up