Will there be a `filterIsInstance` method availabl...

# coroutines

[ashdavies]

Will there be a filterIsInstance method available for ReceiveChannel?
If not, should I propose one as a PR? on KEEP or on the main repo?

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

There isn’t any because it’s easy to implement using existing filter method.
We’d like to avoid having dozens of Rx-like operators, especially with channels, which differ from Rx/reactor/akka cold streams

[ashdavies]

Well, my thoughts were that might not be the case because filterIsInstance is already on CollectionsKt, though rx offers ofType<T>, it might be a pretty common operator

[ashdavies]

But you’re right its pretty easy to achieve with filter/map, it just seems unnecessary