Does something like a hot `Flow` make sense, or is...

# coroutines

[tseisel]

Does something like a hot Flow make sense, or is Flow dedicated to only cold asynchronous streams while `Channel`s are the best choice for hot streams ?

[gildor]

You can convert channel to Flow, so it’s actually become hot

[gildor]

Also, there is proposal to reimplement BroadcastChannel using Flow interface, so it will be actually hot flow
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/1082

[Allan Wang]

@gildor how do you convert channels to flow? Or do you just mean bridging it with something like flowViaChannel?

[gildor]

You can create flow from any BroadcastChannel

[gildor]

There is asFlow extension

[gildor]

flowViaChannel is not hot

[gildor]

Probably "convert" is not exactly correct, it's like subscribe on channel emissions using flow