Tag: goroutine

  • Goroutines don’t panic if channel they write to is gone

    Couple of months ago I wrote an article about error handling in concurrent Go programs. One concern I had about it was if other goroutines would panic if some goroutine produces an error value which causes return from function when the channel is iterated with range construct. So I made another program that mimics scenario.…

  • Error handling in concurrent programs in Golang

    Error handling in concurrent programs in Go consists of little more work than if err != nil { return err } because the return value doesn’t reach intended receiver (for example in parent function where function was fired as a goroutine using go keyword). Just as we use channel for sending resulting data, we must…