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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`

I'm not familiar with the ktor api, but you can probably create a class which implements `CoroutineScope` and extends the ktor api somehow. Then you can attach handlers on that class, and use that class as your scope - and when it shuts down then all coroutines related to handling those requests will be correctly cancelled

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