Go Systems Programming

About goroutines

A goroutine is the minimum Go entity that can be executed concurrently. Note that the use of the word minimum is very important here because goroutines are not autonomous entities. Goroutines live in threads that live in Unix processes. Putting it simply, processes can be autonomous and exist on their own, whereas both goroutines and threads cannot. So, in order to create a goroutine, you will need to have a process with at least one thread. The good thing is that goroutines are lighter than threads, which are lighter than processes. Everything in Go is executed using goroutines, which makes perfect sense since Go is a concurrent programming language by design. As you have just learned, when a Go program starts its execution, ...