I agree with this. Channels have not lived up to their promises, and I mostly avoid them in Go. They're handy sometimes when you want to just block some gorouti

I agree with this. Channels have not lived up to their promises, and I mostly avoid them in Go. They're handy sometimes when you want to just block some goroutine (read from a channel that is never written to) or for a few other use cases, but mutexes are my go-to primitive.