Explain Structured Concurrency in Kotlin Coroutines
WHAT IT TESTS: your grasp of Kotlin coroutine parent-child scope hierarchies. ANSWER OUTLINE: structured concurrency binds coroutines to a scope; parent cancellation propagates to all children, preventing leaks. RED FLAG: calling them unmanaged threads.
WHAT IT TESTS: whether you understand Kotlin coroutines enforce a parent-child hierarchy through CoroutineScope. ANSWER OUTLINE: first, define structured concurrency as the rule that every coroutine runs in a scope; second, explain that cancelling a parent scope recursively cancels all children, so tasks never outlive their context; third, note this prevents resource leaks because dangling jobs cannot survive scope destruction. RED FLAG: claiming coroutines are background threads you kill manually, or conflating Job with SupervisorJob.
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