What’s the most idiomatic way to transform a flow ...

# coroutines

[christophsturm]

What’s the most idiomatic way to transform a flow with multiple threads? Let’s say I have a flow that contains suspend lambdas and I want to transform it to a flow that contains the result of those lambdas, but do it with 16 threads. I know how I would do it with channels, but aber flows more suitable?

[Dominaezzz]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/1147

[christophsturm]

thanks! does that mean for now I best use a channel?

[okarm]

I’m curious, is there an explicit reason why you’re apprehensive about channels?

[gildor]

You can use flatMap instead, which maps over multiple concurrent flows

[christophsturm]

I’m not apprehensive about channels, I just thought maybe theres a way to do it with flows that I don’t know about.

[christophsturm]

basically just like the example from the github issue.