AS says

Channel operators are deprecated in favour of Flow and will be removed in 1.4

But if my channel source is hot (network traffic), how/where should I introduce Flow? The articles I've read so far make the distinction between hot and cold data streams and claim Flow is for cold streams

Operators on channels are not efficient (each of them create intermediate Channel), if you need operators better to use Flow, just use flow interface to access your hot stream

how do you switch from a channel to a flow? just use

channel.consume

inside

flow{}

?

channel.asFlow()