diff --git a/debugGochan.go b/debugGochan.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e21dda8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debugGochan.go
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+// https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-run-multiple-functions-concurrently-in-go
+// who came up with the idea of making community tutorials. that was a good idea!
+
+package debugger
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"sync"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/gui/gui"
+)
+
+var debugWG *sync.WaitGroup
+var debugNumberChan chan int
+
+func DebugGoChannels(n *gui.Node) {
+	var w, g *gui.Node
+
+	w = n.NewWindow("Debug GO Channels")
+	w.Custom = w.StandardClose
+
+	g = w.NewGroup("Channel stuff")
+
+	// var debugWG sync.WaitGroup
+	g.NewButton("init()", func () {
+		if (debugNumberChan == nil) {
+			log.Log(true, "making debugNumberChan channel")
+			debugNumberChan = make(chan int)
+		} else {
+			log.Log(true, "debugNumberChan already made")
+		}
+		debugWG = new(sync.WaitGroup)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("go printInt(x) (read x values off the channel)", func () {
+			debugWG.Add(1)
+			go printInt(2, "routine1")
+			debugWG.Add(1)
+			go printInt(2, "routine2")
+	})
+	g.NewButton("sendNumber(2) (chan <- 2, 4)", func () {
+		debugWG.Add(1)
+		debugWG.Add(1)
+		go sendNumber(2)
+		go sendNumber(4)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("sendNumber(1) (chan <- 7)", func () {
+		debugWG.Add(1)
+		go sendNumber(7)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("send 4 numbers (chan <- int)", func () {
+		log.Log(true, "generateNumbers(4)")
+		go generateNumbers(4)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("debugWG.Done()", func () {
+		log.Log(true, "ran debugWG.Done()")
+		debugWG.Done()
+	})
+	g.NewButton("close chan", func () {
+		log.Log(true, "close() on", debugNumberChan)
+		close(debugNumberChan)
+	})
+	g.NewButton("print", func () {
+		log.Log(true, "waitgroup counter is ?")
+	})
+}
+func sendNumber(i int) {
+	log.Log(true, "START debugNumberChan <-", i, "  (sending", i, "to channel)")
+	debugNumberChan <- i
+	debugWG.Wait()
+	log.Log(true, "END   debugNumberChan sendNumber() done", i)
+}
+
+func generateNumbers(total int) {
+	fmt.Printf("START generateNumbers()\n")
+	for idx := 1; idx <= total; idx++ {
+		log.Log(true, "ran debugNumberChan <= idx where idx =", idx)
+		fmt.Printf("S generateNumbers() sending %d to channel\n", idx)
+		debugNumberChan <- idx
+		// res, err := (<-r)()
+		fmt.Printf("E generateNumbers() sending %d to channel\n", idx)
+	}
+	debugWG.Wait()
+	fmt.Printf("END   generateNumbers()\n")
+}
+
+// i equals the number of times to read values from the channel
+func printInt(i int, name string) {
+	tmp := 1
+	log.Log(true, "START printInt", name, "read debugNumberChan()")
+	for num := range debugNumberChan {
+		log.Log(true, "printInt()",name, "read", num, "from channel")
+		debugWG.Done()
+		if (tmp == i) {
+			return
+		}
+		tmp += 1
+	}
+	fmt.Printf("END printInt()", name, "read debugNumberChan\n")
+}
diff --git a/debugGolang.go b/debugGolang.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1cddf9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debugGolang.go
@@ -0,0 +1,175 @@
+package debugger
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"bytes"
+	// "os"
+	"runtime"
+	"runtime/debug"
+	"runtime/pprof"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"go.wit.com/gui/gui"
+)
+
+func DebugGolangWindow(n *gui.Node) {
+	var newW, newB, g, og, outputTextbox *gui.Node
+
+	newW = n.NewWindow("GO")
+	newW.Custom = newW.StandardClose
+	newB = newW.NewBox("hBox", true)
+
+	g = newB.NewGroup("Language Internals")
+
+	g.NewButton("ReadModuleInfo()", func () {
+		tmp, _ := debug.ReadBuildInfo()
+		outputTextbox.SetText(tmp.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("runtime.NumGoroutine()", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("goroutine").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+
+		outputTextbox.AppendText(fmt.Sprintln("runtime.NumGoroutine() = ", runtime.NumGoroutine()))
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(heap)", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("heap").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("debug.PrintStack(current)", func () {
+		outputTextbox.SetText(string(debug.Stack()))
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(goroutine)", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("goroutine").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup(block)", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("block").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+	g.NewButton("pprof.Lookup threadcreate", func () {
+		buf := new(bytes.Buffer)
+		pprof.Lookup("threadcreate").WriteTo(buf, 1)
+		outputTextbox.SetText(buf.String())
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("runtime.ReadMemStats()", func () {
+		outputTextbox.SetText(runtimeReadMemStats())
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.FreeOSMemory()", func () {
+		var out string = "Before debug.FreeOSMemory():\n\n"
+		out += runtimeReadMemStats()
+		debug.FreeOSMemory()
+		out += "\n\nAfter debug.FreeOSMemory():\n\n"
+		out += runtimeReadMemStats()
+		outputTextbox.SetText(out)
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.ReadGCStats()", func () {
+		var tmp debug.GCStats
+		var out string
+		debug.ReadGCStats(&tmp)
+		log.Log(true, tmp)
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("LastGC:", tmp.LastGC, "// time.Time time of last collection")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("NumGC:", tmp.NumGC, "// number of garbage collections")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("PauseTotal:", tmp.PauseTotal, "// total pause for all collections")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("Pause:", tmp.Pause, "// []time.Duration pause history, most recent first")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("PauseEnd:", tmp.Pause, "// []time.Time pause history, most recent first")
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("PauseQuantiles:", tmp.PauseQuantiles, "// []time.Duration")
+		outputTextbox.SetText(out)
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetTraceback('all')", func () {
+		debug.SetTraceback("all")
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("panic()", func () {
+		panic("test")
+	})
+
+	g = newB.NewGroup("TODO: finish these")
+
+	// g.NewLabel("TODO:")
+
+	g.NewButton("runtime.Stack(true)", func () {
+		// TODO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61127053/how-to-list-all-the-running-goroutines-in-a-go-program
+		// func Stack(buf []byte, all bool) int
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetMemoryLimit(int)", func () {
+		// TODO:
+		//debug.SetMemoryLimit(1024 * 1024 * 100)
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetMaxStack(int bytes)", func () {
+		// default is apparently 1GB
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetMaxThreads(int)", func () {
+		// default is apparently 10,000
+	})
+
+	g.NewButton("debug.SetTraceback('all')", func () {
+		debug.SetTraceback("all")
+	})
+
+	// deprecated (probably) by String() implementation within golang
+	g.NewButton("dumpModuleInfo() (deprecate)", func () {
+		outputTextbox.SetText(dumpModuleInfo())
+	})
+
+	og = newB.NewGroup("output")
+	outputTextbox = og.NewTextbox("outputBox")
+	outputTextbox.Custom = func () {
+		log.Log(true, "custom TextBox() for golang output a =", outputTextbox.S)
+	}
+}
+
+func runtimeReadMemStats() string {
+	var s runtime.MemStats
+	var out string
+	runtime.ReadMemStats(&s)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("alloc:", s.Alloc, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("total-alloc:", s.TotalAlloc, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("sys:", s.Sys, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("lookups:", s.Lookups)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mallocs:", s.Mallocs)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("frees:", s.Frees)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-alloc:", s.HeapAlloc, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-sys:", s.HeapSys, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-idle:", s.HeapIdle,"bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-in-use:", s.HeapInuse, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-released:", s.HeapReleased, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("heap-objects:", s.HeapObjects)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("stack-in-use:", s.StackInuse, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("stack-sys", s.StackSys, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("next-gc: when heap-alloc >=", s.NextGC, "bytes")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("last-gc:", s.LastGC, "ns")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("gc-pause:", s.PauseTotalNs, "ns")
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("num-gc:", s.NumGC)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("enable-gc:", s.EnableGC)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("debug-gc:", s.DebugGC)
+	return out
+}
+
+func dumpModuleInfo() string {
+	var out string
+	tmp, _ := debug.ReadBuildInfo()
+	if tmp == nil {
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("This wasn't compiled with go module support")
+		return ""
+	}
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Path         = ", tmp.Path)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Main.Path    = ", tmp.Main.Path)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Main.Version = ", tmp.Main.Version)
+	out += fmt.Sprintln("mod.Main.Sum     = ", tmp.Main.Sum)
+	for _, value := range tmp.Deps {
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("\tmod.Path    = ", value.Path)
+		out += fmt.Sprintln("\tmod.Version = ", value.Version)
+	}
+	return out
+}
diff --git a/mainWindow.go b/mainWindow.go
index ee3e354..d7d18f9 100644
--- a/mainWindow.go
+++ b/mainWindow.go
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ func DebugWindow2(n *gui.Node, title string) *gui.Node {
 		gui.DebugWidgetWindow(myGui)
 	})
 	gog.NewButton("GO Language Internals", func () {
-		bugWin.DebugGolangWindow()
+		DebugGolangWindow(bugWin)
 	})
 	gog.NewButton("GO Channels debug", func () {
-		bugWin.DebugGoChannels()
+		DebugGoChannels(bugWin)
 	})
 
 	gog.NewLabel("Force Quit:")