Is there a good document that explains how corouti...

# coroutines

[rakshakhegde]

Is there a good document that explains how coroutines in Kotlin work? It's fascinating how it's suspending without threads 😯

[voddan]

rakshakhegde: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-coroutines#navigate

[groostav]

yeah I mean, to be blunt it typically requires job queues. The 25 word explanation that I give programmers who haven't seen coroutines before is that basically kotlinc will chop some methods up into smaller methods and wrap a call to each of those small methods in a job for a job queue.

[groostav]

also worth mentioning, with kotlin's implementation of couroutines there isn't actually anything stopping you from using multiple threads to implement it, though I'm not sure why that would be desirable.

[voddan]

The video by the link is good, but its syntax is outdated

[groostav]

yeah and Andrey is being attacked by an oracle branded air conditioner 😛