Important Characteristics of Go: Concurrency Model

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 ...