While Go’s signal handling is still not without sharp edges, it is by far the most pleasant system I’ve worked with: signals are handled via channels like any o

While Go’s signal handling is still not without sharp edges, it is by far the most pleasant system I’ve worked with: signals are handled via channels like any other event in your application. Back when I wrote Python and had to wire up event loops by hand, signalfd seemed to offer a similar experience. Sadly signalfd’s issues are well documented, and it’s really hard to handle signals in complex code bases without help from a runtime like Go’s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564975 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564975