I'm on coroutines 0.25.0 (I'm on ktor 0.9.5, because the 1.0-betas are broken for me) and I need to launch a coroutine in a request handler that will run in the background after the request completes for a while. Naturally the current docs are all about the updated coroutines API -- is plain old

launch {}

what I want in 0.25.0 to make a coroutine that runs entirely disconnected from the coroutine executing the request handling logic?

if it is truly fire and forget, you can use

GlobalScope.launch

GlobalScope doesn’t exist in 0.25.0; otherwise I would agree that it seems well suited