Overview

• This shows how to use Kotlin Coroutines
• This gives some rationale for using Kotlin coroutines (over alternatives)

Target Audience

• Java 8+ developers

Motivation

• The Kotlin team already has great documentation.
• After reading thru it, a few things were still unclear
• The official examples are nice, but a little out-of-date.

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Why Kotlin

Why coroutines

Examples

Comparisons

To Golang goroutines

To Guava ListenableFutures

To Java Futures

To Reactor