Kotlin coroutines is one of the major features of Eclipse Vert.x 3.5. Most of us are used to writing interactive code and going the reactive way is not a trivial paradigm shift for everyone: programming using asynchronous APIs can be more challenging than using a direct synchronous style, in particular, if you have several operations that you want to do in sequence. Also, error propagation is often more complex when using asynchronous APIs. With Kotlin, you can write inter-reactive Vert.x...
A couple of weeks ago, I had the great opportunity to record a Podcast for InfoQ about Eclipse Vert.x. I talk about the recent Vert.x 3.5 release and its killer features, Reactive Programming and on what might be the future of the project. Download the Eclipse Vert.x cheat sheet, this cheat sheet provides step by step details to let you create your apps the way you want to.
