Goroutines Are Not Threads: The Mental Model Shift

The first thing every Java developer learns about goroutines is that they’re cheap. Start a million of them, no problem. The mental model that follows from this — “goroutines are threads but lighter” — is close enough to be useful and wrong enough to cause confusion. Here’s the refined model. ...

April 22, 2019 · 6 min · MW
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