Discussing Kotlin Coroutines with Marcin Moskała

Sebastian and Márton chat with Marcin Moskała about coroutines. Resources: Coroutines Mastery course Coroutines | Kotlin Documentation kotlinx.coroutines Taming Asynchronous Beasts | Marcin Moskała Coroutine Debugging in IntelliJ IDEA | Alexey Merkulov Lifecycles, Coroutines and Scopes | Alejandro Serrano Mena Collect Like a Pro | Manuel Vivo Untangling Coroutine Testing | Márton Braun JetBrains/lincheck – Concurrent testing framework #talking-kotlin on Kotlin Slack Hosts: Sebastian Aigner – Website | Bluesky Márton Braun – Website | Bluesky Guest: Marcin Moskała – kt.academy Timeline: (0:00) Introduction (1:18) Branding discussion (3:23) Handling preconceptions (4:54) What are coroutines? (7:17) Lightweight threads? (11:07) Where coroutines live (13:27) Sequence Builder Example (17:37) The design of coroutines (20:52) What Makes Coroutines special vs other languages? (26:56) Coroutines vs Loom (34:55) Easy to start, hard to master (41:07) Common mistakes (49:33) Flows (58:52) Thinking about Flows (1:02:41) Derailing the conversation (1:03:55) Flows for single values (1:12:27) Structured concurrency (1:18:53) The 4 advantages (1:24:40) Seb tries web dev / The web is broken?! (1:31:15) collectAsStateWithLifecycle (1:32:00) Gardening break (1:36:23) Scopes and contexts (1:43:22) Testing coroutines (1:50:29) Lincheck (1:51:32) Turbine (1:55:05) Coroutines Mastery course (2:01:43) Wrap-up