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Hey, is there any advantage `ticker` over `delay` :slightly_smiling_face:? It looks like ticker just sending a Unit to channel after some delay.

Ticket repeatedly sends a value, delay just suspends once.

Unless you have some particular reason for using a channel, it's probably simpler to just use delay in a loop

I thought so, thanks a lot :slightly_smiling_face:

The ticker is currently JVM-only as it doesn’t strictly follow the “structured concurrency” patterns. But the advantage of `ticker` over `delay` in a loop is that also handles slow clients and attempts to emit events with the same _period_, rather than delaying by a fixed amount of time

I believe there are plans to introduce a similar ticker for Flow, which should play a lot nicer with structured concurrency.

Now I see TickerMode.FIXED_PERIOD, so the ticker is a bit better if we have slow and fast hardware and we want to show e.g the animations with the same period/time  on each one, anyway in most cases it shouldn't really matter