the flipside is async exceptions mean you can always kill a thread if a goroutine doesn't select on a chan, you're screwed and don't get me started on how bad

the flipside is async exceptions mean you can always kill a thread if a goroutine doesn't select on a chan, you're screwed and don't get me started on how bad Go gets in terms of exception safety. I've seen defer go wrong in so many ways. Unrestricted mutability is mostly to blame.