Is it possible to use Go's buffered channel as a thread-safe queue?

Question

I want to find a queue structure (a data container) whose elements must be first-in-first-out. It is important for me that the structure must be thread-safe. I\'m going to u

Answer 1

In Go, a buffered channel is just that: a thread-safe FIFO queue so what you are trying to do is perfectly valid. You shouldn't have performance issues at all with this approach.