runBlocking

is a bridge between the coroutine "world" and normal non-coroutine "world". Are there any other "bridges"? I am looking for

runNonBlocking

.

You can also use JDK APIs like

CompletableFuture

via the

kotlinx-coroutines-jdk8

module

val myFuture = future<Int> { 
    delay(100)
    100
}

Note: the coroutine APIs, including

launch

, spend a lot of time ensuring deep cancellation and handled failures. They’re definitely my go-to over futures.

hmm.. didn't know about this module.. will probably try to learn the native kotlin way since my project is 100% kotlin

async {}

is also another bridge when you need the result (or to bubble up an exception thrown, since launch will just "swallow" the exception...), just learn about structured concurrency before you start with them, so you don't leak your coroutines.