Effect.merge vs withTaskGroup

[mariob]

Is there any difference of using one of these two for just kicking of some background work, for example:

Task 1 - Fetch data from network and store in database (and quit)
Task 2 - Observe database and 'send' state update (in for await loop)

[kamcma]

Effect merge uses withTaskGroup under the hood. So it's a little bit personal preference, or if you need a particular Effect or TaskGroup API. TCA does ship a helper to get some granular cancellation behavior in effect world without having to drop down to TaskGroups.

[mariob]

@kamcma Thanks for the links! Effect.merge will work fine for my use cases.