What is the difference between coroutine.create or spawn?

Hi, I was wondering what was the difference between coroutine.resume(coroutine.create and spawn(function(). Which one is best to use?

coroutine.resume(coroutine.create(function()
	for i = 1, 10 do
		print(i)
	end
end))

/

spawn(function()
	for i = 1, 10 do
		print(i)
	end
end)

spawn internally uses coroutines. There are two major differences between the two however.

spawn schedules the created coroutine to be called after the current step. That means it will be called when the current thread yields or ends. Thus, it won't be executed immediately.

Coroutines on the other hand create a new thread that is called immediately -- the current thread will actually wait for the coroutine to yield or end before continuing itself.

I'd draw a neat little graph demonstraing this procedure but since I'm on my phone, this'll do.

print("spawn start")
spawn(function()
	for i = 1, 10 do
		print("spawn", i)
	end
end)
print("spawn end")

print("coroutine start")
coroutine.wrap(function()
	for i = 1, 10 do
		print("coroutine", i)
	end
end)()
print("coroutine end")

The other difference is that the spawn function doesn't let you work with the actual coroutines and their other functionality.