The Goroutine Temptation. Examples of goroutine usage where they are actually unnecessary
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This is a compact collection of examples where goroutines are actually unnecessary. Background — just add "go" Go makes it easy to parallelize tasks like saving statistics, tracking online status, or similar background work — just add the go keyword. This simplicity helps you focus on business logic, but sometimes leads to mindlessly adding go before tasks that can be parallelized but don't need to be. Example 1: launching a goroutine at the end of a goroutine package ma