But using something in the way it was not intended to be used, and then complaining that it works badly, is evidence of incompetence on the part of the user, not the designer.

> I don't personally have enough data to have a strong opinion on where Go channels falls here, but I don't think any of your arguments here have any bearing on the idea that Go's channel implementation is bad.

If sagichmal is correct, zeeboo is trying to use channels in a way that they were explicitly not designed to be used. That makes zeeboo's criticism very likely to be invalid. (It is the one who uses them as they were designed to be used who knows what the actual problems with the design are.)