Chapter 9. Concurrency
Concurrency is considered to be the one of the most attractive features of Go. Adopters of the language revel in the simplicity of its primitives to express correct concurrency implementations without the pitfalls that usually come with such endeavors. This chapter covers the necessary topics to understand and create concurrent Go programs, including the following:
- Goroutines
- Channels
- Writing concurrent programs
- The sync package
- Detecting race conditions
- Parallelism in Go
Goroutines
If you have worked in other languages, such as Java or C/C++, you are probably familiar with the notion of concurrency. It is the ability of a program to run two or more paths of execution independently. This is usually done by exposing a thread primitive ...
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