Prevent the main() function from terminating before goroutines finish in Golang

Question

Have loook at this contrived example:

package main

import \"fmt\"

func printElo() {
    fmt.Printf(\"Elo\\n\")
}

func printHello() {
    fmt.Printf(\"Hel         


        

Answer 1

You can use sync package and take a look at waitgroups. You can take a look at a working Goplayground I set up.

Essentially

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "sync"
    )

//Takes a reference to the wg and sleeps when work is done
func printElo(wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
    fmt.Printf("Elo\n")
    defer wg.Done()
}

//Takes a reference to the wg and sleeps when work is done
func printHello(wg *sync.WaitGroup) {
    fmt.Printf("Hello\n")
    defer wg.Done()
}

func main() {
    //Create a new WaitGroup
    var wg sync.WaitGroup
    fmt.Println("This will print.")

    for  i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
        //Add a new entry to the waitgroup
        wg.Add(1)
        //New Goroutine which takes a reference to the wg
        go printHello(&wg)
        //Add a new entry to the waitgroup
        wg.Add(1)
        //New Goroutine which takes a reference to the wg
        go printElo(&wg)
    }
    //Wait until everything is done
    wg.Wait()
}