kscript VS kotlinx.coroutines

You probably want to have a look at kscript. It's fixes the primary issue of kotlin script (uncompetitive startup time) by adding a cache of compiled scripts: https://github.com/kscripting/kscript

There is a community project called kscript, which can execute bare bones kotlin script files. The shebang line for that would be #!/usr/bin/env kscript. While that is one thing which can be done with Kotlin script, it is not its main purpose, its main purpose is to have a script definition in some other Kotlin program which can then execute any Kotlin script following that definition at runtime. See the official tutorial for how a Kotlin program would run such a script.

I think you can run `kscript` on windows but i didn't really tried.check out kscript

How exactly did you install sdk man? Wonder if it's configured correctly with the path. kscript had the sdkman install instructions for kotlin which was a dependency in my project

Cheers to kscript!

I am surprised not to see any mention of kscript https://github.com/holgerbrandl/kscript

and the community-led kscript effort.

Now, let's consider an example. For instance, let's create a Kotlin/JVM project with kotlinx.coroutines library as a dependency.

Greetings community, I just submited a PR to Kotlin coroutines with two additional operators :

The harder parts of Kotlin are going to be things like kotlinx.coroutines, but that's just a library, not a core part of the language. It's about as hard to learn as a comparable library in another language, like the Task Parallel Library in .NET.

Kotlin has coroutines that are supported by the language and implemented by a library (the implementation remains platform-dependent): kotlinx.coroutines and a sandbox environment is available here to try it out.

That said, since it seems like you're doing UI stuff (Android?), you're best off doing all of the UI code in coroutines, using Dispatchers.Main as a context (as provided by one of the platform-specific coroutine libraries), since this will guarantee that your UI code will be safely run in the UI thread.