Last Updated: May 22, 2026
Fan-in merges values from several input channels into one output channel, so a downstream consumer only has to read from a single place. It's the natural counterpart to fan-out: where fan-out spreads work across many goroutines, fan-in collects their results back into a single stream. This lesson covers the two canonical implementations, the closing rule that causes the most bugs, and a generic version you can drop into any project.