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by jayd16 948 days ago
Well for one, virtual threads would be implicit blocking and this style is explicit.
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so kotlin functions are colored while java ones are colorless?
Java doesn't have an equivalent to Kotlin's 'suspend fun'. The CoroutineScope abstraction ('launch', 'join', 'await', etc) is also absent, at least until Structured Concurrency gets released [1] and Java gains StructuredTaskScope.

1: https://openjdk.org/jeps/462