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hey guys I was hoping to get some feedback on whether i'm using coroutines &amp; ktor sockets properly. It feels weird to be writing a bunch of CoroutineScope(<http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO>).launch { while(true){ ... do stuff}}} everywhere
<https://gist.github.com/abueide/f086f6e0cc00c5bd8daf793cc66e0b96>

I don't think you should create scopes like that. That would basically be equivalent to using GlobalScope which is not recommended usually.

Since the <https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutine-context-and-dispatchers.html#dispatchers-and-threads|coroutine context is inherited> you don't need to specify a dispatcher every time you run child coroutine. I think it's OK to have `while(true)` loops in your case because you need to process clients and read data from them indefinitely. Have a look at the <https://ktor.io/docs/servers-raw-sockets.html#simple-echo-server|example> in the documentation.

ah okay, thank you. I was confused I thought that if i didn't launch them in separate coroutines they would block eachother

You need to call `launch`  for each of them but don't have to specify `<http://Dispatchers.IO|Dispatchers.IO>` if the parent coroutine already has that dispatcher.