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

If you want just to play with results you can use "hack" with waiting for input:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "bufio"
    "os"
)

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

func printHello() {
    fmt.Printf("Hello\n")
}

func main() {
    fmt.Printf("This will print.")
    i := 0
    for i < 10 {
        go printElo()
        go printHello()
        i++
    }

    reader := bufio.NewReader(os.Stdin)
    reader.ReadString('\n')
}

If want to learn how to do synchronization read about sync package:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "sync"
)

var wg sync.WaitGroup

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

func printHello() {
    fmt.Printf("Hello\n")
    wg.Done()
}

func main() {

    fmt.Printf("This will print.")
    i := 0
    for i < 10 {
        wg.Add(2)
        go printElo()
        go printHello()
        i++
    }

    wg.Wait()
}