> golang-concurrency

Standards for safe concurrent programming using Goroutines, Channels, and Context. Use when implementing concurrency with Goroutines, Channels, or Context in Go. (triggers: **/*.go, goroutine, go keyword, channel, mutex, waitgroup, context)

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Golang Concurrency Standards

Priority: P0 (CRITICAL)

Principles

  • Share Memory by Communicating: Don't communicate by sharing memory. Use channels.
  • Context is King: Always pass ctx to efficient manage cancellation/timeouts.
  • Prevent Leaks: Never start a goroutine without knowing how it will stop.
  • Race Detection: Always run tests with go test -race.

Primitives

  • Goroutines: Lightweight threads. go func() { ... }()
  • Channels: For data passing + synchronization.
  • WaitGroup: Wait for a group of goroutines to finish.
  • ErrGroup: WaitGroup + Error propagation (Preferred).
  • Mutex: Protect shared state (simpler than channels for just state).

Guidelines

  • Buffered vs Unbuffered: Use unbuffered channels for strict synchronization. Use buffered only if you specifically need async decoupling/burst handling.
  • Closed Channels: Panic if writing to closed. Reading from closed returns zero-value immediately.
  • Select: Use select to handle multiple channels or timeouts.

References

🚫 Anti-Patterns

  • Do NOT use standard patterns if specific project rules exist.
  • Do NOT ignore error handling or edge cases.

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