How to correctly use sync.Cond?

You need to make sure that c.Broadcast is called after your call to c.Wait. The correct version of your program would be:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "sync"
)

func main() {
    m := &sync.Mutex{}
    c := sync.NewCond(m)
    m.Lock()
    go func() {
        m.Lock() // Wait for c.Wait()
        c.Broadcast()
        m.Unlock()
    }()
    c.Wait() // Unlocks m, waits, then locks m again
    m.Unlock()
}

https://play.golang.org/p/O1r8v8yW6h

Here's a practical example with two go routines. They start one after another but the second one waits on a condition which is broadcast by the first one before proceeding:

package main

import (
    "sync"
    "fmt"
    "time"
)

func main() {
    lock := sync.Mutex{}
    lock.Lock()

    cond := sync.NewCond(&lock)

    waitGroup := sync.WaitGroup{}
    waitGroup.Add(2)

    go func() {
        defer waitGroup.Done()

        fmt.Println("First go routine has started and waits for 1 second before broadcasting condition")

        time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)

        fmt.Println("First go routine broadcasts condition")

        cond.Broadcast()
    }()

    go func() {
        defer waitGroup.Done()

        fmt.Println("Second go routine has started and is waiting on condition")

        cond.Wait()

        fmt.Println("Second go routine unlocked by condition broadcast")
    }()

    fmt.Println("Main go routine starts waiting")

    waitGroup.Wait()

    fmt.Println("Main go routine ends")
}

Output may vary slightly as the second go routine could start before the first one and viceversa:

Main go routine starts waiting
Second go routine has started and is waiting on condition
First go routine has started and waits for 1 second before broadcasting condition
First go routine broadcasts condition
Second go routine unlocked by condition broadcast
Main go routine ends

https://gist.github.com/fracasula/21565ea1cf0c15726ca38736031edc70

OP answered his own, but did not directly answer the original question, I am going to post how to correctly use sync.Cond.

You do not really need sync.Cond if you have one goroutine for each write and read - a single sync.Mutex would suffice to communicate between them. sync.Cond could useful in situations where multiple readers wait for the shared resources to be available.

var sharedRsc = make(map[string]interface{})
func main() {
    var wg sync.WaitGroup
    wg.Add(2)
    m := sync.Mutex{}
    c := sync.NewCond(&m)
    go func() {
        // this go routine wait for changes to the sharedRsc
        c.L.Lock()
        for len(sharedRsc) == 0 {
            c.Wait()
        }
        fmt.Println(sharedRsc["rsc1"])
        c.L.Unlock()
        wg.Done()
    }()

    go func() {
        // this go routine wait for changes to the sharedRsc
        c.L.Lock()
        for len(sharedRsc) == 0 {
            c.Wait()
        }
        fmt.Println(sharedRsc["rsc2"])
        c.L.Unlock()
        wg.Done()
    }()

    // this one writes changes to sharedRsc
    c.L.Lock()
    sharedRsc["rsc1"] = "foo"
    sharedRsc["rsc2"] = "bar"
    c.Broadcast()
    c.L.Unlock()
    wg.Wait()
}

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Having said that, using channels is still the recommended way to pass data around if the situation permitting.

Note: sync.WaitGroup here is only used to wait for the goroutines to complete their executions.