kotlin-retry vs kotlinx-io

kotlin-retry

A multiplatform higher-order function for retrying operations that may fail. (by michaelbull)

Kotlin Retry Io high-order-function Functional programming Backoff jitter

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kotlinx-io

Kotlin multiplatform I/O library (by Kotlin)

Kotlin Kotlinx Io

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kotlin-retry		kotlinx-io
	Project
6	Mentions	2
322	Stars	1,066
-	Growth	6.7%
7.6	Activity	8.3
9 days ago	Latest Commit	2 days ago
Kotlin	Language	Kotlin
ISC License	License	Apache License 2.0

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kotlin-retry

Posts with mentions or reviews of kotlin-retry. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-13.

Using Higher Order Functions to Retry Errors
1 project | /r/Kotlin | 30 Sep 2022
Kotlin Retry To Make Your Code More Resilient
1 project | /r/Kotlin | 11 Aug 2022

Here’s a full fledged implementation of a higher order retry function that supports various retry policies, including limiting number of attempts and exponential back offs with jitter.
Complete Kotlin library for retrying on I/O failures
3 projects | /r/Kotlin | 13 Dec 2021

What's the advantage of that over kotlin-retry?
A simple Kotlin Exponential Backoff library designed for kotlinx.coroutines.
1 project | /r/Kotlin | 22 Jun 2021

2 projects | /r/androiddev | 22 Jun 2021

I like the more idiomatic api from https://github.com/michaelbull/kotlin-retry . But still nice work

kotlinx-io

Posts with mentions or reviews of kotlinx-io. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-03.

Are there any libraries well suited to the manipulation of bits, bytes and byte arrays used in packet communication?
3 projects | /r/Kotlin | 3 Oct 2021

There is java.io and the currently unmaintained library kotlinx.io (they need more team members for that library).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kotlin-retry and kotlinx-io you can also consider the following projects:

kotlin-backoff - An exponential backoff library for Kotlin

okio - A modern I/O library for Android, Java, and Kotlin Multiplatform.

kotlin-result - A multiplatform Result monad for modelling success or failure operations.

OkHttp - Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

Android-CleanArchitecture-Kotlin - This is a movies sample app in Kotlin, which is part of a serie of blog posts I have written about architecting android application using different approaches.

ktoml - Kotlin Multiplatform parser and compile-time serializer/deserializer for TOML format (Native, JS, JVM) based on KxS

RxKotlin - RxJava bindings for Kotlin

Bundlizer - Android Bundle format support for Kotlinx Serialization.

kotlinx.atomicfu - The idiomatic way to use atomic operations in Kotlin

kbson - Mongo BSON support for kotlinx.serialization.