In addition to the other comments, the other way to achieve this with loom is to use the new structured concurrency API. This is overkill for a single task, bu

In addition to the other comments, the other way to achieve this with loom is to use the new structured concurrency API. This is overkill for a single task, but for your second example you could do a an invokeAny with something like this: try (var scope = new StructuredTaskScope.ShutdownOnSuccess<String>()) { scope.fork(() -> doSomething1()); scope.fork(() -> doSomething2()); scope.join(); // or if you wanted a 5 second timeout .joinUntil(Instant.now().plusSeconds(5)) String result = scope.result(); // This will return the result of either doSomething1() or doSomething2(), whichever won the race to finish first. ... } https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/jdk.incubator.concurrent/jdk/incubator/concurrent/StructuredTaskScope.html https://download.java.net/java/early_access/loom/docs/api/jd...