Yep, futures can be done easily in Go with a goroutine that sends a single value...

hornetblack · on April 29, 2013

You could save the future in the Future implementation

    type future struct {
        completed   bool
        result      interface{}
        ch        <-chan interface{}
    }

Edit: Or just check if the channel is closed

    func (f *future) Wait() interface{} {
        v, ok := <- ch
        if ok { f.result = v; return v }
        else  { return f.result }
    }