Shared flows, broadcast channels

Photo by Davies Designs Studio on UnsplashOnce upon a time coroutines were introduced to Kotlin and they were lightweight. We could launch a multitude of coroutines and we needed a way to communicate between those coroutines without running into a dreaded “mutable shared state” problem. Thus Channel was added as an inter-coroutine communication primitive. The channels are wonderful. Channels suppo

[harigel]

“In the absence of a subscriber, any posted event is immediately dropped. ” "With the channel, ... Posted events are not dropped."