Kotlinhard

What is structured concurrency and why does it matter?

Answer

It means coroutines are tied to a scope, so their lifetime is bounded by the parent job. Cancellation and failures propagate in a controlled way, which prevents “leaking” background work (avoid `GlobalScope` in app code).

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