An early try at programming-with-cartoons, in the spirit of _why’s Poignant Guide. Current work is at home.
A few animals marked up an introduction to goroutines and channels from https://go.dev/talks/2012/concurrency.slide#20 ! You can copy paste the below into a file, say simple.go, and run it with go run simple.go
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package main
import ("fmt"
"math/rand"
"time")
func main() {
c := make(chan string)
go boring("boring!", c)
for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
fmt.Printf("You say: %q\\n", <-c) // Receive expression is just a value.
}
fmt.Println("You're boring; I'm leaving.")
}
func boring(msg string, c chan string) {
for i := 0; ; i++ {
c <- fmt.Sprintf("%s %d", msg, i) // Expression to be sent can be any suitable value.
time.Sleep(time.Duration(rand.Intn(1e3)) \* time.Millisecond)
}
}
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