Oh, could you please show me some code that does this (a 'channel between boxes'), and supports sending of exactly the same data types that you send over a regular Go channel?

Using the old deprecated netchan package doesn't count ;).

There's gob ( http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/gob/ ). Not going to claim it's on the level of node communication in Erlang, but it does make data (de)serializaiton incredibly simple. With only a few lines of code you could have a channel reading from and writing to a socket to another machine.

I haven't done it myself. The idea is from the book The Go Programming Language Phrasebook. I've misplaced the book, but this link shows it's probably netchan: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/golang-n...