Go Channels

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• Go Concurrency

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Overview

The Go chans provide a composable, concurrent-safer way to communicate between concurrent processes.

Because channels are composable with other channels, this makes writing large systems simpler, because you can coordinate the input from multiple subsystems by easily composing the output together. You can combine input channels with timeouts, cancellations, or message to other subsystems.

The select statement is the complement to Go's channels. It is what enables all the difficult parts of composing channels. select statement allows you to wait for events, select a message from competing channels in a uniform random way, continue on if there are no messages waiting, and more.

Also see:

Go Concurrency Programming Models