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