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How Do You Tame the Async BEAST with Kotlin and JavaScript?
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- 1 0:05 – Introduction and book announcement
- 2 0:32 – Why write about asynchronous programming
- 3 1:02 – Challenges in Kotlin: coroutines, suspend functions, dispatchers
- 4 2:04 – Demonstrating async with JavaScript
- 5 2:44 – Structured programming principles
- 6 4:21 – Simulating delays and the problem with blocking
- 7 5:11 – Callbacks and non-blocking code
- 8 6:07 – Diverging control flow in asynchronous programming
- 9 8:01 – Pitfalls: try/catch, resource leaks, hidden tasks
- 10 10:05 – Async/await as a solution in JavaScript
- 11 12:03 – Benefits of async/await for control flow
- 12 13:30 – Limitations and hiding issues
- 13 14:00 – Kotlin suspend functions and safe async
- 14 15:04 – Managing background tasks in Kotlin
- 15 16:07 – Recommended reading and resources
- 16 17:01 – Runtime support, concurrency, and multi-threading
- 17 19:05 – Wrap-up and reflections on learning async
