Bit confused with thus illustration here, <https:/...

# coroutines

[Abhi]

Bit confused with thus illustration here, https://elizarov.medium.com/coroutine-context-and-scope-c8b255d59055
My confusions is with Parent and Child scope.
Is he calling it Child scope, just because the scope in which the child coroutine runs has a context made of Parent Context + new Child Job?

For example, all the 3 coroutines launched here, belong to the same coroutine scope? or new child scopes are created for each launch?

fun main() = runBlocking<Unit> {
    launch { 
      launch { 
        launch { 
          delay(1000)
        }
        delay(1000)
      }   
      delay(1000)
    }
}

[Jeff Lockhart]

All those launch calls are being called from the same CoroutineScope receiver from runBlocking. Each call to launch creates a new coroutine with its own Job, which is returned by the call. That Job is a child of the parent runBlocking scope's Job.

If you were to include additional context in the launch calls, e.g. launch(Dispatchers.Main + CoroutineName("coroutine-A")) { ..., that context would be merged with the parent scope's context from runBlocking (by default here, just EmptyCoroutineContext), which would be the coroutine's parent context. That parent context plus the child Job is equal to the child context, which makes up the child scope.

It's the Job that defines when a CoroutineScope is cancelled. And that Job potentially has a parent/child relationship with other `Job`s in order to propagate cancellation. A SupervisorJob is unique in that it does not propagate its cancellation. For this reason, a top-level CoroutineScope is often defined with a SupervisorJob.

[Jeff Lockhart]

So taking your example code and adding some `CoroutineContext`s to it, you can see how the coroutine contexts and child scopes are composed:

fun main() = runBlocking<Unit>(CoroutineName("foo")) {
    // Dispatchers.Main + CoroutineName("foo") + job1
    val job1 = launch(Dispatchers.Main) {
        // CoroutineName("bar") + job2
        val job2 = launch(CoroutineName("bar")) {
            // CoroutineName("bar") + job3
            val job3 = launch {
                delay(1000)
            }
            delay(1000)
        }
        delay(1000)
    }
}

[Abhi]

for job3 = launch { }, it would be // CoroutineName("bar") + job3?

[Abhi]

fun main(): Unit = runBlocking {
    launch(CoroutineName("foo")) {
        launch(CoroutineName("bar")) {
            launch {
                println(coroutineContext[CoroutineName])
            }
        }
    }
}

[Abhi]

Output: CoroutineName(bar)

[Abhi]

thanks for the explaination @Jeff Lockhart, appreciate it. Helped me improve my understanding of coroutines better

[Jeff Lockhart]

for job3 = launch { }, it would be // CoroutineName("bar") + job3?

Ah, yes. This is a good point because it shows how the parent context comes from the coroutine being launched from.