What's the right way for setting off a 'fire and forget' Job via

launch

? Should I just instance a new scope for the call? Documentation says that any uncaught exceptions will cancel the parent job.

you can use

GlobalScope

if you aren’t interested in tracking its Job for cancellation

sorry

Okay, that's what I was wondering, thanks.

Uncaught exceptions will cancel a parent job unless it's a

SupervisorJob

, I believe

GlobalScope

behaves similarly to a supervisor scope by virtue of there being no

Job

attached to cancel peers when an uncaught exception occurs

GlobalScope.launch { println(this.coroutineContext[Job]) }

He meant that theres no parent attached to the GlobalScope, I.e. no parent to the coroutine