why can't initializers be `suspend` ?

# coroutines

[LastExceed]

why can't initializers be suspend ?

[streetsofboston]

You mean constructors?

[LastExceed]

yes

[Animesh Sahu]

Cause of backward compatibility, more hackintosh solution could be using invoke

class MyClass private constructor(params) {
	companion object {
		suspend operator fun invoke(params): MyClass {
            // do your suspension here
			return MyClass(params)
		}
	}
}

[streetsofboston]

Good question. Not entirely sure, but having objects only partially constructed while a thread goes off and do something else feels odd to me 🙂
You can launch/async parallel code in constructors, though.

[Animesh Sahu]

Call it just like any other constructor

[streetsofboston]

And what @Animesh Sahu showed is a nice workaround 🙂, by using a factory method