Multipart Kotlin Coroutines Course - E03 - Medium - async - launch - contexts 1/2

In this video I am talking about the differences between async and launch in detail. To be very honest, there aren't that many on purely functional level, but programmatically there are important differences to be noted. They influence the structure of our code and the possibilities and features that we can build with it. But that is just a small flare at the beginning of the video. On the second half I am discussing curiosities to all the standard 4 coroutine dispatchers that we can use out-of-the-box in Kotlin and what each of them mean. I talk about myths that are frequently told about contexts and what do those myths mean and where is the background true story behind them. All in all this video is important for you even if you are already familiar with the basic concepts of Kotlin coroutine dispatchers. Make sure to watch the video untill the end to learn more and as usual, make sure to stay tech, keep programming, be kind and have a good one everyone! Cheers!

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Chapters:

00:00:00 Start
00:00:44 Introduction
00:04:56 async vs launch
00:32:43 Introduction to Coroutine Contexts
00:33:40 All about Dispatchers.Default
00:49:13 The wonders of Dispatchers.IO and why we miss the Pool size
01:00:46 It's Dispatchers.Unconfined! Run!
01:06:52 The boring Dispatchers.Main, or is it?
01:12:46 Closing notes
01:15:16 Thank you and see you in the next video!
01:15:46 End credits

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