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Re:Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go by philosopher1234 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @05:35AM (#34351635)
You wrote "That nothing about it’s good". That's stupid. I agree we are wasting our time.
Re:Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go by Smurfix on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:16AM (#34353003)
Well, Ok, so the main thing that's good about it is that it's dead easy to start a goroutine. But that's actually bad, just like randomly jumping to any piece of code whatsoever is bad in in a procedural language.

Read the Structured Concurrency notes (https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...) for the reasons why.

Re:Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go by philosopher1234 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @08:51AM (#34353442)
I don’t know. I think the culture around go encourages effective/safe strategies for using go routines + channels. I think when channels are used as intended they can be quite effective. They’re not technically more safe than anything else, but I think the fact that they make concurrency more manageable is good.