Idiomatic goroutine termination and error handling

Using Error Group makes this even simpler. This automatically waits for all the supplied Go Routines to complete successfully, or cancels all those remaining in the case of any one routine returning an error (in which case that error is the one bubble back up to the caller).

package main

import (
        "context"
        "fmt"
        "math/rand"
        "time"

        "golang.org/x/sync/errgroup"
)

func fetchAll(ctx context.Context) error {
        errs, ctx := errgroup.WithContext(ctx)

        // run all the http requests in parallel
        for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
                errs.Go(func() error {
                        // pretend this does an http request and returns an error                                                  
                        time.Sleep(time.Duration(rand.Intn(100)) * time.Millisecond)                                               
                        return fmt.Errorf("error in go routine, bailing")                                                      
                })
        }

        // Wait for completion and return the first error (if any)                                                                 
        return errs.Wait()
}

func main() {
        fmt.Println(fetchAll(context.Background()))
}