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Because I think discussing actual solutions is better that just complaining, this is my current favorite design document to address context:

Go Context Scoping [1] by Eyal Posener. It even has a working PoC implementation [2] which is pretty ergonomic and could become even moreso with language integration.

I think this concept solves most of the problems we currently face with context. As a consequence of making context available per goroutine it basically becomes an implementation of gouroutine-local storage. But this is more because context.WithValues exists in the first place than because of this proposal. In fact context has effectively become the de-facto GLS anyway, except it makes everyone's code ugly to do it.

[1]: https://posener.github.io/context-scoping/

[2]: https://github.com/posener/context




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