It uses `Thread sleep` though so kotlinlang #coroutines

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j

jw

09/05/2017, 3:33 PM

It uses

Thread.sleep

though, so...

u

uli

09/05/2017, 3:50 PM

Sure. It is supposed to mock some real work. not a suspended coroutine 🙂

j

jw

09/05/2017, 3:57 PM

But then the use and comparison of coroutines is wasted. It just becomes an abstraction on the ForkJoinPool, Thread, and Future. So the comparison is pointless.

u

uli

09/05/2017, 3:58 PM

As I understand it the comparison is about ease of use, elegance and clarity of code, ...

The author is asking for improvements to the coroutine example.

I welcome the reader to try and update the coroutine implementation to accomplish the same behavior (including any other form of cancellation possibility while you are at it).

I am convinced, it can be simplified. But I am also not sure about the relevance of this article.

j

jw

09/05/2017, 4:07 PM

Aside from trying not to choke on the obvious bias, they operate on different levels of abstraction so I'm not sure what value I'm supposed to get out of this.

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groostav

09/05/2017, 11:20 PM

I mean the whole value of coroutines is reduced to that one line paragraph:

[using RX over coroutines provide] A slightly longer implementation and certainly may look scary to those who are not used to so much lambdas.

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