No doubt it's quite easy to go down ratholes using mutexes and whatnot. It's a very low-level way of synchronizing. The OPs critques of the specific design of

No doubt it's quite easy to go down ratholes using mutexes and whatnot. It's a very low-level way of synchronizing. The OPs critques of the specific design of channels as implemented by Go seem on-point to me.