Comment by RyanZAG

How do goroutines compare to things like futures in eg. java?

The ultimate structure seems much the same: start off a worker, and then you wait for the result with a timeout. As an example, the following code gives the same result:

In Go:

    c := make(chan Result)
    go func() { c <- Web(query) } ()
    go func() { c <- Image(query) } ()
    go func() { c <- Video(query) } ()

    for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
        result := <-c
        results = append(results, result)
    }

In Java:

  ExecutorService executorService = Executors.newCachedThreadPool();
  Future[] futures = new Future[]{
   executorService.submit(new Web(query)),
   executorService.submit(new Image(query)),
   executorService.submit(new Video(query)),
  };
		
  for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
   Result result = futures[i].get();
   results.add(result);
  }