Comment by dfawcus

Generally, in any language, I'd suggest of you're fiddling with lots of locks (be they mutexes, or whatever), then one is taking the wrong approach.

Specifically for Go, I'd try to address the problem in CSP style, so as to avoid explicit locks unless absolutely necessary.

Now for the case you mention, one can actually achieve the same in Go, it just takes a bit of prior work to set up the infra.

  type Foo struct {sync.Mutex; s string}
  
  func doLocked[T sync.Locker](data T, fn func(data T)) {
      data.Lock(); defer data.Unlock(); fn(data)
  }
  
  func main() {
      foo := &Foo{s: "Hello"}
      doLocked(foo, func(foo *Foo) {
        /* ... */
      })
      /* do the slow stuff */
  }