How to initialize a Thread in Kotlin?

Question

In Java it works by accepting an object which implements runnable :

Thread myThread = new Thread(new myRunnable())

where myRunnable

Answer 1

Best way would be to use thread() generator function from kotlin.concurrent: https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.concurrent/thread.html

You should check its default values, as they're quite useful:

thread() { /* do something */ }

Note that you don't need to call start() like in the Thread example, or provide start=true.

Be careful with threads that run for a long period of time. It's useful to specify thread(isDaemon= true) so your application would be able to terminate correctly.

Usually application will wait until all non-daemon threads terminate.