What is a Goroutine and how do you stop it?
Goroutines are lightweight threads in the Go language, managed by the Go runtime environment. They are more efficient than traditional threads, allowing tens of thousands of Goroutines to run concurrently on a single or few operating system threads.What is Goroutine?Goroutines are started using the keyword in Go, allowing functions or methods to run concurrently within the same address space. Each Goroutine consumes minimal memory, which enables the creation of thousands of Goroutines. In contrast, traditional threads consume more memory, limiting their scalability.In the above code, starts a new Goroutine. This means and run concurrently.How to Stop Goroutines?In Go, there is no native method to directly terminate or stop a Goroutine. To stop a Goroutine, the common approach is to use a channel to send a signal to it, indicating when to stop execution.In this example, the function runs in a loop, listening for signals on the channel using the statement. When a signal is received from , it calls the function to perform cleanup and returns to stop the Goroutine's execution. This method allows Goroutines to stop gracefully through cooperation, avoiding resource leaks or inconsistent states that might occur with forced termination.