The Kotlinx.coroutines repo hasn't been getting an...

# coroutines

[spierce7]

The Kotlinx.coroutines repo hasn't been getting any love for a month+ now. Any idea what's going on? It looked like MPP work was progressing, but hasn't been touched for a while now.

[louiscad]

I can tell you they released a 0.23-dev1 version on Bintray the past week. Also, look at other branches. There's still activity. I expect big things this year (like improved MPP, JS Channels, Kotlin/Native support, new features like better actors).

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

We’re actively developing new features and stabilizing existing ones.
Note that changes are not pushed to master branch, but to develop, which is merged to master only before the release

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

MPP: next release will have proper channels/select/produce builders for JS, Native is still in development

[spierce7]

@Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB] when will we see the next release?

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

@spierce7 ~in the two weeks

[spierce7]

Don't suppose javascript will get a runBlocking with that release?

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

Nope. It’s not clear how to implement runBlocking on node.js at all, because there is no ability to block the thread (and no such abstraction)

[louiscad]

@spierce7 runBlocking on a single threaded environment is like asking for a deadlock

[Vsevolod Tolstopyatov [JB]]

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/376 maybe it can be implemented