Kotlin coroutines: new ways to do asynchronous programming

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Kotlin provides async/await as library functions plus language-level suspend functions that let calls suspend without returning Deferred everywhere; async/await still exists as Deferred. Builders like async and launch run coroutines on dispatchers you choose; coroutine scopes enforce structured concurrency so a failing child cancels siblings automatically. Channels (rendezvous, buffered, conflated) use suspend send/receive for producer/consumer patterns and automatic load balancing. Overhead is a small heap-stored call stack per coroutine, not OS threads.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:50async and await are functions defined in the standard library
3. 4:07Example: simple consecutive logic
4. 6:28Rewrite with suspend functions
5. 14:20Coroutine builders
6. 15:22Simple "load image" example
7. 15:49async creates a new coroutine: starts a new asynchronous computation
8. 20:26Call stack of a coroutine
9. 24:12Specify the context
10. 26:06Structural concurrency
11. 27:28Two asynchronous coroutines
12. 28:54Problem: leaking coroutine
13. 30:59Enforcing structure
14. 38:19Types of Channels
15. 39:50"Rendezvous" channel semantics
16. 52:34Suspended coroutine

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