I've found various cases positional memorization is the "wrong" recompose method, and I actually need a destructive update. Any suggestions better ways to handle this?

Why do you need a destructive update, what are you actually trying to do? How does

counted.value

change over time (is it monotonically increasing/decreasing)? Have you tried using

@Pivotal

or

key

? https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/Pivotal https://developer.android.com/reference/kotlin/androidx/compose/package-summary#key(androidx.compose.key.V1,%20kotlin.Function0)

@molikto i’d like to understand what it is that you’re wanting/needing? it sounds to me like

key

might be what you want, but not sure until i know more about the scenario you have

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] @Leland Richardson [G] thanks!

key

is exactly what I needed