Go file IO fails when writing while iterating over a channel

I'm having an issue with writing lines to a csv file while iterating over a channel. I'm new to Go, but the syntax for file IO looks synchronous to me. Given that I would expect that a write operation returning successfully would indicate that the write is complete, but that's not what I'm observing. This is essentially what I have going on in my application:

package main
import (
	"encoding/csv"
	"log"
	"os"
)
func main() {
	file, err := os.Create("test.csv")
	if err != nil {
		log.Fatalf("Error opening file: %s", err.Error())
	}
	defer file.Close()
	writer := csv.NewWriter(file)
	channel := make(chan []string)
	counter := 0
	go func() {
		defer close(channel)
		for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
			channel <- []string{"col1", "col2"}
		}
	}()
	for vals := range channel {
		if err := writer.Write(vals); err != nil {
			log.Fatalf("Error writing to csv: %s", err.Error())
		}
		counter++
	}
	log.Printf("%d lines written", counter)
}

There's a go routine passing values through a channel, and I'm iterating over those values and writing them to a CSV file. I get no errors, and at the end it logs that 100 lines have been written.

When I check the CSV file though it's empty. The behavior I'm seeing in my application is the file is written incompletely; it'll stop halfway through writing a record. I'm sure I'm missing something, but if the write returns with no errors why is there nothing in the file?

You are missing writer.Flush() at the end of your function.

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