Always use IO thread for file operations?

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@broot

For async I/O Java provides AsynchronousChannel and its subtypes. All operations can be performed by providing a CompletionHandler, so it could be easily translated to suspending.

I wrote a small lib some time ago

Asynk-nio library

Hi all, I am planning to develop some Kotlin extension methods for some common, officially unsupported, asynchronous libraries. I will release this work under the MIT license. I started this work on Java NIO, I wrote an initial implementation here with a really low memory pressure (continuation listener is a singleton). Every contribution will be appreciated. The library is available here: Asynk / nio · GitLab A README file was already planned and I hope to release it soon on jcenter. Tha…