... wait a moment. Those 'wait groups' in Golang, is that literally just their equivalent of async-callback-counting in JS?! A practice which has been obsolete for like a decade by now?

I really struggle to take this language seriously...

@joepie91 no, a wait group is a basic primitive in low level concurrency.

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@bananas Yes, so are async callback counters. And just like those aren't used anymore because the vast majority of people shouldn't be working at that low a level and it's really hard to get right...

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@joepie91 yes, but go has mistaken itself for a systems language where such structures are the norm.

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