```suspend fun main() { coroutineScope { flowOf<Unit>().shareIn(this, SharingStarted.Whi...

# coroutines

[Nick Williams]

suspend fun main() {
	coroutineScope {
   		flowOf<Unit>().shareIn(this, SharingStarted.WhileSubscribed())
    }
}

https://pl.kotl.in/gaJVXPMWr = Evaluation stopped while it's taking too long️. Why? The child coroutine of shareIn should, according to docs, never start

[Nick Williams]

ok looking at the source of shareIn both Lazily and WhileSubscribed will block forever until the first subscriber appears

[Nick Williams]

Eagerly would complete

[ephemient]

also shareIn always has to create a new child job (even for WhenStarted because it needs to live independently of the subscribers), which it can't close itself

[Nick Williams]

thanks, what pattern do you suggest to create a scope that doesnt wait for its child when it completes? A kind of finiteCoroutineScope { ... } as coroutineScope { ...; cancel() } feels unnatural to me