Go just makes things easy to get right, it doesn't make you get them right. Mutexes, condition vars, atomic operations on primitives have their place. That plac

Go just makes things easy to get right, it doesn't make you get them right. Mutexes, condition vars, atomic operations on primitives have their place. That place is usually in scenarios where channels do not fit well. A program written in Go can deadlock, but the runtime detects deadlock and terminates the program, so at a system level, it does not deadlock. P.S. "No locks at all, hence no deadlock", is this not true, any system with blocking operations can deadlock. You can construct a Go program that only uses channels and get it to deadlock...