regarding hot vs cold, there is no concept of a co...

# coroutines

[groostav]

regarding hot vs cold, there is no concept of a cold Channel is there? My best bet is to give something like a Provider<Channel>

[dragas]

Define hot and cold channels.

[elizarov]

Indeed, you'll need something 2nd order, like a factory of channels. In kotlinx-coroutines-reactive there is a publish builders that implement a cold reactive stream Publisher interface.