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is there a recommended way to schedule a periodic task with coroutines? i see `ticker`, but it’s marked as obsolete and it’s unclear why

The docs say this: ```
Note: Ticker channels are not currently integrated with structured concurrency and their api will change in the future.```

Could use `repeat` with `delay` or a coroutine with a loop that checks `isActive` + `delay`

You could also use a `Flow` with an indefinite generator with a delay if you want it as a stream

```
suspend fun periodicTask(
    period: Long,
    context: CoroutineContext = EmptyCoroutineContext,
    task: suspend CoroutineScope.() -&gt; Unit
) = withContext(context) {
    while (true) {
        delay(period)
        task()
    }
}
```

But I wouldn`t spawn to many of them like this.