More or less, but with the ability to "poison" them by closing which causes downstream go-routines to exit. You can do the same thing in java by checking for a

More or less, but with the ability to "poison" them by closing which causes downstream go-routines to exit. You can do the same thing in java by checking for a poison object and then terminate your loop. The close is built into the language itself which is useful, along with the other built in language functionality. I wrote about it here, with an example of how to do it https://boyter.org/posts/file-read-challange/ https://boyter.org/posts/file-read-challange/