at this time intellij is not honoring launch{} keyword from inside main

What do you mean? The only thing that you probably should do is wrap to

runBlocking{}

and call

join()

to wait when coroutine will be finished

doing https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ccd44eb698cce2ef7f1ee3c5f2c7624f

launch is not a part of stdlib, it’s function from library kotlinx.coroutines

ok so the kotlinx githb project really lacks big bold letters saying add this to maven/gradle... iiuc

my bad, that's there...

ok so the kotlinx githb project really lacks big bold letters saying add this to maven/gradle... iiuc

what do you mean? There are big bold letters: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines#using-in-your-projects

i broke this out into a seperate project and cleaned the pom and let intellij put the kotlin bits back in

adding coroutines

It’s just enabled coroutine feature of compiler. kotlinx.coroutines is not requirement, you can use any implementation in your project, it’s easy to write simple coroutine builder for simple usage