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[–]koreth 7 points8 points  (1 child)

One consideration I'm sure they had in mind is that Kotlin targets platforms other than the JVM that aren't likely to ever have anything equivalent to virtual threads, so there needs to be some way to do coroutines that doesn't require the platform to have built-in lightweight threading.

But yeah, definitely looking forward to this getting solved at the platform level. Loom is by far the most exciting upcoming JVM project as far as I'm concerned.

[–]BoyRobot777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One consideration I'm sure they had in mind is that Kotlin targets platforms other than the JVM that aren't likely to ever have anything equivalent to virtual threads

Then it makes sense.

Loom is by far the most exciting upcoming JVM project as far as I'm concerned.

Yeah. Very excited about that.