#goroutine

[jesselucas]

Illustration for Medium article “Shutdown All Goroutines”

[txgruppi]

[allanshone]

Going Async with Channels and go routines

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A good small example of channels usage within Go for async purposes.

[shonelikethesun]

Banging my head against channels.

[golang-examples]

Stop goroutine by closing a quit channel

It's a good practice to stop a goroutine by closing a 'quit' channel.

doSomething := make(chan int) quit := make(chan int) go func() { select { case <- doSomething: fmt.Println("done") case <- quit: fmt.Println("quit") } }() close(quit) // stop the goroutine

It's better than sending a variable to 'quit' channel like,

quit <- 1 // stop the goroutine

because you can stop more than one goroutines by closing it.

[golang-examples]

Sleep forever

Sleep forever select{}