Goroutine Leaks - The Abandoned Receivers

Introduction Goroutine Leaks are a common cause of memory leaks in Go programs. In my previous post, I presented an introduction to Goroutine leaks and provided one example of a common mistake that many Go developers make. Continuing that work, this post presents another scenario on how Goroutines could be leaked. Leak: The Abandoned Receivers For this leak example you will see multiple Goroutines blocked waiting to receive values that will never be sent....

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