How Kotlin Coroutines Work Internally-(Part-1)

In this story, I will delve into how Kotlin coroutines work internally, providing great detail using the library’s source code from GitHub. I will also demonstrate an example by re-implementing the Kotlinx coroutines, which will help you better understand the coroutine.

When discussing coroutines, they are often treated as a singular concept. In reality, coroutines consist of two key components: the built-in support provided by the Kotlin language (including compiler support and the Kotlin standard library) and the Kotlin coroutines library, commonly known as kotlinx coroutines. The Kotlin language’s support for coroutines is designed to accommodate any style of concurrency. The kotlinx coroutines library leverages this language support to implement the structured concurrency style.

If you wish, you can even create your own concurrency library using Kotlin’s language-level support for concurrency. First, I will discuss the language-level support, followed by an exploration of the kotlinx coroutines library.

If you want to follow along this story, you must be familiar with kotlin language very well. In the next part, i will discuss the compiler support for kotlin.

If you wish to follow along with this story, it’s essential that you are well-versed in the Kotlin language. In the next section, I will delve into the Kotlin standard library support for Kotlin coroutines.

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