Can anyone help me understand the use case differe...

# coroutines

[zsperske]

Can anyone help me understand the use case difference for a callbackFlow and a Channel? both seem to support "hot" streams

[louiscad]

The former has the latter, but it's auto-closed on cancellation of the flow collector.

[louiscad]

As explained in their respective docs in more details.

[Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]]

Channel is a synchronization primitive for communicating between coroutines. CallbackFlow is basically just shorthand for creating a channel, then launching a coroutine to send to the channel, and returning a Flow that reads from the channel.

[zsperske]

much appreciated!