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		winter_blue on Sept 17, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Java 21 makes me like Java again I wonder: are virtual thread at the JVM level? If so, would Kotlin (and other JVM languages) be able to leverage virtual threads to improve (e.g. produce more optimal JVM bytecode) for their async functionality?

midoBB on Sept 20, 2023 [–]

It is a JVM level feature but the Scala guys at ZIO are not that excited about it IIRC.

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