Go channels are bad and you should feel bad
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The author shares the experience and insights gained from using Google's Go programming language, with a particular focus on the overuse and issues associated with Go channels. Although channels are central to Go's concurrency model, the author argues that in many cases, traditional synchronization primitives like mutexes are simpler, more efficient, and easier to reason about. The post provides code examples to highlight the challenges and offers suggestions on how Go could improve its concurrency primitives.
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Wait, what?What are channels good for?How could channels be better?What do we tell people about Go then?So…6 Comments
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