[skj]

> Queues ("channels") are a good way to limit complexity of threaded code by treating each process as an agent. Besides some syntactical sugar Go doesn't really support this better than most other languages with threading, like Java.

The magic of channels comes with select{}. Considering them to be only threadsafe queues is really missing out.

Supporting select{} in other languages is possible, but difficult and rare.

[bmurphy1976]

Also, by default channels are zero length and block. What is a zero length queue in other languages? Doesn't even make sense!

Zero length channels are a key part of coordinating concurrent threads in Go.