what is the use case/purpose of this?

# coroutines

[Riku]

what is the use case/purpose of this?

[tseisel]

The idea is to introduce a ThreadLocal variable to be shared between coroutines. This variable can be read from a running coroutine with coroutineContext.

[Riku]

ok so do I understand correctly it is a way to share data between threads when using coroutines?

[tseisel]

Coroutines offer an abstraction over using threads. They focus more on communicating between coroutines than sharing state between them. The main primitive to communicate between coroutines are `Channel`s : https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coroutines/shared-mutable-state-and-concurrency.html