That makes perfect sense as the simple reproducer shows: https://play.golang.org/p/vSEBtdV2CzR
Only in this case I didn't see it as there were more go routines alive. Much appreciated, thank you! On Monday, April 19, 2021 at 11:29:31 PM UTC+2 Brian Candler wrote: > As far as I understand it: "go foo(bar, baz)" evaluates all the arguments > first, *then* starts a goroutine with function foo(val1, val2) > > Since http.ListenAndServe() never returns [unless it fails to start], it > never gets as far as starting a goroutine for log.Fatal, and therefore > cannot continue to the rest of the code. > >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/a6a54717-8900-429a-953b-f67cde373fafn%40googlegroups.com.