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is there any point to doing something like `lauch { val result = async { doStuff() }.await() }`, assuming `doStuff()` is a suspend fun? or would it make more sense to simply call `doStuff()` inside the launch block without `async`?

just call `doStuff()` inside `launch`, that `async` isn’t doing anything.

i figured as much. where is async best applied, then?

i guess when you have multiple suspend functions that you want to wait for simultaneously, and/or they are long-running?

`async` is used when you want to run code in parallel

So, if you wanted to issue two network requests at the same time, then wait for both to complete, you could start them both in their own `async` blocks, then await on both of the returned Deferreds

most of my async knowledge comes from nodejs callbacks, so i still think that way heavily

`async` shouldnt be user very often at all, as a generale type of thumb.

`withContext` should commonly be used instead, when you invoke `await` immediately anyway