[jtolds]

> the complaints about channels have largely been received and agreed upon by experienced Go developers. Channels are still useful but they were way more prominent in the early days of Go as a solution to lots of problems, and nowadays are instead understood as a sharp tool only useful for specific problems.

As the author of the post, it's really gratifying to hear that this is your assessment nowadays. I agree, and while I'm not sure I had much to do with this turn of events (it probably would have happened with or without me), curbing the use of channels is precisely why I wrote the post. I felt like Go could be much better if everyone stopped messing around with them. So, hooray!