Hi Egon Thank you for your reply, I myself used channel as a semaphore, i'm not sure if that is a appropriate use case for channels.
Anyhow your opionion is very welcome Am Dienstag, 8. August 2017 09:26:35 UTC+2 schrieb Egon: > > There are trade-offs. > > Channels are easy to use for simple things, but complicated for complected > things. > > Locking data-structures can easily introduce data-races (see The Little > Book of Semaphores http://greenteapress.com/wp/semaphores/). > > The Game/Player example looks weird to me; there's one piece missing -- > without it, the full complexity is not seen. > > With regards to callbacks (context.Done) specifically, in one case you > control the goroutine it gets executed in, in the other not. > > Not closing the waiting channel inside context leaking goroutine is > moot... when you forget to invoke the callbacks, you will leak as well when > you have resource releasing in the callback. > > Channels are quite good for producer-consumer things, but tend to get very > complicated for dispatches. > > *tl;dr; channels and locking have trade-offs, instead of hopping on the > bandwagon, understand the trade-offs and pick the one that is most suitable > in a certain situation.* > > + Egon > > On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 09:01:12 UTC+3, snmed wrote: >> >> Hi Gophers >> >> I stumbled over a nice and very interesting Blog entry "Go channels are >> bad and you should feel bad >> <http://www.jtolds.com/writing/2016/03/go-channels-are-bad-and-you-should-feel-bad/>" >> >> , I would like to hear some opinions about that article >> from seasoned go developers. Because I just used go for a couple of >> months for my private web projects and rarely get in touch with channels. >> >> By the way, that article is not a rant and the author likes go very much >> as far as I can conclude from the article. >> >> Cheers snmed >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
