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Unbuffered Channels

High Priority16 min readUpdated June 6, 2026

An unbuffered channel is a channel with zero capacity. Every send on it pauses until another goroutine performs a matching receive, and every receive pauses until another goroutine performs a matching send. That forced meeting in the middle, called a rendezvous, is what makes unbuffered channels the default tool for synchronization in Go.

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