[chuckadams]

> We do not use channels to increment a shared number, because that's ridiculous and the author is disingenuous in their contrived example. No serious Go shop is using a channel for that.

Talk about knocking down strawmen: it's a stand-in for shared state, and understanding that should be a minimum bar for serious discussion.

[franticgecko3]

And implying I don't understand toy examples and responding with this is apparently above the bar for serious discussion.

[pdimitar]

Dude. Criticizing a contrived example that is never used in production code is a very fair game. You didn't need to go all "but actually!" here.