if you want to have this functionality, you can create a scope with a

SupervisorJob()

and cancel all the children of the job instead

Thank you!

and the alternative:

suspend fun main() {
    val scope = CoroutineScope(SupervisorJob())
    scope.launch {
        println("Yes, this runs!")
    }.join()
    scope.coroutineContext[Job]!!.children.forEach { it.cancel() }
    scope.launch {
        println("Yes, this runs too!")
    }.join()
    println("Finished.")
}

gives

Yes, this runs!
Yes, this runs too!
Finished.

ah, in fact you don't even need

SupervisorJob()

here -- cancellation of parent only occurs with an exception, not when cancelling normally via

cancel()