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ahulyk
08/13/2019, 2:09 PMwhat is the future of Coroutines after release of Project Loom?
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gildor
08/13/2019, 2:11 PMDo you mean in terms of JVM support? Because Project Loom works only for Java language and Kotlin Coroutines only for Kotlin
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rook
08/13/2019, 2:12 PMKotlin coroutines are cross-platform, for starters. And for us Android folk, Kotlin coroutines will probably be our only option for utilizing structured concurrency.
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louiscad
08/13/2019, 2:12 PMThreads will become cheaper when being blocked while not doing computation. Other than that, we'll see.
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ahulyk
08/13/2019, 2:13 PMi mean in terms of JVM support
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gildor
08/13/2019, 2:27 PMI think it depends on final implementation of Loom, maybe something may be reused for Kotlin, maybe not
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corneil
08/13/2019, 2:27 PMI can't see why coroutines wouldn't be updated to support Project Loom.
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gildor
08/13/2019, 2:28 PMIn general I agree with Corneil, Kotlin coroutines do not require any VM support
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corneil
08/13/2019, 2:28 PMI see coroutines as a DSL to develop async and reactive code and underneath there is an implementation that takes care of business.
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miqbaldc
08/15/2019, 3:18 AMhttps://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/06/19/project-loom-lightweight-java-threads/
There will be called Java Fiber
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