Can anyone explain why the

doSomething()

in this snippet prevents the outer

run()

loop from continuing? You’ll notice that

"Continuing to run"

is printed after

"doSomething with $hello done"

which is the opposite pattern I’m looking for.

doSomething uses coroutineScope, which won't return until all its child coroutines have completed.

Is there an alternative function I’m looking for here?

if you want to immediately launch, remove

suspend

and

coroutineScope

and make it an extension on

CoroutineScope

instead

Makes sense, thanks.

This is purely a matter of style, but in this case I would probably pass the scope in as a regular param instead of a receiver, and name the function

doSomethingIn

. Receiver feels odd to me unless the function is a generic launcher or something, and this convention reads really clearly that this function will launch a coroutine in a given scope. But same idea regardless.

@Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD] Agree completely, this was a sanitized toy example of the problem. The actual code follows better code styles