The main value of the race detector is enabling it for tests (go test -race), and then writing sufficiently exhaustive unit tests to cover all code paths. I do

The main value of the race detector is enabling it for tests (go test -race), and then writing sufficiently exhaustive unit tests to cover all code paths. I do think most gophers, instead of tests, use a combination of prayer and automatically restarting crashed processes when they inevitably panic from a race, which seems to work better than you'd expect!