coroutine

In Coroutine 1.6.0, limitedParallelism() was introduced to provide a view of the underlying dispatcher, guaranteeing no more than the specified coroutines can be executed at the same time.

With a well-designed support for structured concurrency, cancelling should be easy, and calling job.cancel() will do the trick, right?

Kotlin Coroutines enables us to asynchronously return a single value, but how about multiple values?

In the previous article, we discussed the basics on how to Kotlin Coroutines. Now, let’s continue to the topic of structured concurrency.

Starting with the 1.3 release, Kotlin provides a nice and flexible way to do asynchronous or non-blocking programming: Coroutines.