A subtlety I’m ok with here … channels are a a language primitive but, in terms of runtime, an opinionated composition of data and concurrency semantics; the op

A subtlety I’m ok with here … channels are a a language primitive but, in terms of runtime, an opinionated composition of data and concurrency semantics; the opinions give the runtime some privilege to do some nice things without a lot of effort when using channels. The misuse of channels in a general sense tends to equate to factoring out of some of the elements composed into the channel primitive. It feels like a lesser sin to use channels in clever ways to recreate mutexes or other patterns than the other way around. But it’s definitely true that they are juiced up to make tradeoffs that are morally wrong for some things.