What's the right way for setting off a 'fire and f...

# coroutines

[obobo]

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.

[zak.taccardi]

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

[Dico]

sorry

[obobo]

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

[nwh]

Uncaught exceptions will cancel a parent job unless it's a SupervisorJob, I believe

[bdawg.io]

GlobalScope behaves similarly to a supervisor scope by virtue of there being no Job attached to cancel peers when an uncaught exception occurs

[sitepodmatt]

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

[sitepodmatt]

it still has a Job but job has no parent

[Dico]

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