Learning Concurrency in Kotlin

Summary

This chapter was a detailed introduction to many important concepts and tools involved in concurrency, and acts as a foundation for the upcoming chapters. So here's a summary to help you remember some of the most important points that we discussed:

• An application has one or more processes; each of them has at least one thread, and coroutines are executed inside a thread.
• A coroutine can be executed in a different thread each time it's resumed, but can also be confined to a specific thread.
• An application is concurrent when its execution happens in more than one overlapping thread.
• To write correct concurrent code, it's necessary to learn how to communicate and synchronize the different threads, which in Kotlin implies the communication ...