Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Async and await on the JVM

For those interested, this is a very very big deal.  Many of us from the C# side of things have been longing for async await on the JVM.  While I realize Quasar has been around for a while, Kotlin has a much more elegant compiler supported approach.  This is awesome!!

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/03/kotlin-1-1/
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlin-coroutines
https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines

Given Kotlin will support native code compilation in the future on everything from IOS, Android to the PC, the possibilities for having a single build which targets all platforms are getting closer.

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