You can always do something like go func() { ch <- foo }() then your normal program flow won't block. I guess that's what you mean by deadlock. If your pr

You can always do something like go func() { ch <- foo }() then your normal program flow won't block. I guess that's what you mean by deadlock. If your program runs into an actual deadlock, the runtime will detect it, crash the program and show stacktraces.