What is the current state of the Kotlin Native version of the KotlinX Coroutines library? Which feat...

# coroutines

[napperley]

What is the current state of the Kotlin Native version of the KotlinX Coroutines library? Which features are available, and what are the key limitations in the Kotlin Native version?

[gildor]

The main limitation is lack of multithreading

[gildor]

Otherwise everything from kotlinx-coroutines-core should be available for native

[napperley]

Does that include support for the Actor concurrency model?

[napperley]

I might be mistaken but the delay function with the Kotlin JVM version relies on threads. Is the delay function available in the Kotlin Native version (without the reliance on threads)?

[gildor]

You don't need direct access to thread for delay, you can implement it with event loop, same on JVM

[gildor]

Actors are there, but the same limitation, you cannot pass non-frozen data between threads

[napperley]

That limitation will come from Kotlin Native's memory model.

[napperley]

For back-end development the lack of multi-threading is more of an annoyance than a big pain.

[napperley]

Presumably for all data types (incl custom ones) there will be a straightforward way to create a immutable (frozen) copy of the data.

[gildor]

Yeah I know, I agree with your