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I would like to “`select` ” between multiple `async` operations but I want to select the *first one that succeeds* OR fail only after *everyone fails*. Seems current select with `onAwait` will fail when *any* of the operations fail, is there a way to achieve the other behavior?

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I'm not sure if there is a more idiomatic way to do it but here is what I came up with some noodling.

Sounds like a race.
What about this one?
```suspend fun &lt;T&gt; race(vararg tasks: suspend () -&gt; T): T =
  channelFlow { tasks.forEach { launch { send(it()) } } }.first()```

To make sure errors don't crash the whole thing, you'll need to wrap each coroutine in a `runCatching`

Yeah went with channel at last but it feels like this should be a configuration of select

I could be wrong but select is has been in the linux kernel for reading from multiple streams of io without blocking on a specific one. Which is why they probably used channels as it is the closes analog.
<https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/select.2.html>

This api was vital for being able to have an event bus for handling IO.