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by MathMonkeyMan 356 days ago
> Channels should remain a low-level primitive to build pipelines, but they're not what you should use as your main API surface.

I remember hearing (not sure where) that this is a lesson that was learned early on in Go. Channels were the new hotness, so let's use them to do things that were not possible before. But it turned out that Go was better for doing what was already possible before, but more cleanly.