The impact of coroutines on async computation (kotlindevelopment.com)

9 points by zsedbal 8y ago ↗ HN

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A very promising library, although experimental. Even has Android-specific extensions (https://github.com/Kotlin/anko/wiki/Anko-Coroutines).

zsedbal 8y ago ↗

Of course they have, it is maintained by JetBrains :D

abukros 8y ago ↗

What do you guys think about how it compares to Rx? There are opinions about they are on a different abstraction level so they don't compete with each other.

andraskindler 8y ago ↗

I agree, coroutines is good for the simpler use cases, while Rx is better for composed transformations. Not sure about using coroutines in prod though, while still experimental.

zsedbal 8y ago ↗

I’d definitely would wait for the non-experimental release, just in case.