Is there a less

try

/

catch

oriented way of accessing the result of

async

? Thinking of something similar to

Result

something like

tryAwait

?

What is that? I can’t find any references to it

that's hypothetical example 😄

-_-

I can't find functions like that either but it's quite easy to write, though

that has been my approach - was curious if there was an endorsed way

I would argue

deferred.runCatching { await() }

is probably more readable anyway, since it’s super obvious what it does and doesn’t require learning more API on

Deferred

.

An

async

will still cancel its scope though, unles its a supervisor one, or has no job (like GlobalScope)

Yeah, I find that behavior strange

It's simple: either you catch it around the local

coroutineScope { … }

, or you catch it inside the

async

block. If you don't do parallelization, you most probably don't need

async

at all though, only suspending function + try catch.