Important Characteristics of Go: Concurrency Model
Discover the core concepts behind Go's concurrency model by exploring how goroutines function as lightweight threads and channels facilitate communication between them. Understand challenges such as synchronization and the implications of the Go scheduler on execution order. This lesson lays the groundwork for mastering concurrent programming in Go.
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Understanding the Go concurrency model
This lesson is a quick introduction to the Go concurrency model. The Go concurrency model is implemented using goroutines and channels. A goroutine is the smallest executable Go entity. In order to create a new goroutine, we have to use the go keyword followed by a predefined function or an anonymous function—both methods are equivalent as far as Go is concerned.
Note: We can only execute functions or anonymous functions as goroutines.
A channel ...