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Time is not a synchronization primitive

Time is not a synchronization primitive

Using time as a synchronization mechanism in programming can lead to flaky and unreliable code, causing tests, scripts, and applications to break randomly. Instead, it is recommended to use proper synchronization mechanisms like channels to ensure the desired state. To discourage the use of time.Sleep in tests, a tool called nosleep is introduced as a Go linter that fails the code if it detects the presence of time.Sleep. However, if there is a genuine need to use time as a synchronization method, a magic command "//nosleep:bypass" can be added with a valid reason to override the linter's check.


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