Channels can be really useful but are massively oversold. Fortunately it has cooled off a bit in recent years but I still see heaps of go code that bends over b

Channels can be really useful but are massively oversold. Fortunately it has cooled off a bit in recent years but I still see heaps of go code that bends over backwards to use channels because "share memory by communicating blah blah blah", even in cases where using another synchronisation mechanism instead would radically simplify things.