Is there a way to do repetitive tasks at intervals?

Question

Is there a way to do repetitive background tasks in Go? I\'m thinking of something like Timer.schedule(task, delay, period) in Java. I know I can do this with

Answer 1

If you want to stop it in any moment ticker

ticker := time.NewTicker(500 * time.Millisecond)
go func() {
    for range ticker.C {
        fmt.Println("Tick")
    }
}()
time.Sleep(1600 * time.Millisecond)
ticker.Stop()

If you do not want to stop it tick:

tick := time.Tick(500 * time.Millisecond)
for range tick {
    fmt.Println("Tick")
}