alt Hacker NewsI think the Go part is missing a pretty important thing: the easiest concurrency model there is. Goroutines are one of the biggest reasons I even started with Go.
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kibwen • today at 2:01 AM
I'll disagree with you there. Structured concurrency is the easiest concurrency model there is: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-g...
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macintux • today at 1:07 AM
> the easiest concurrency model there is
Erlang programmers might disagree with you there.
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Agreed. Rob Pike presented a good talk "Concurrency is not Parallelism" which explains the motivations behind Go's concurrency model: https://youtu.be/oV9rvDllKEg
Between the lack of "colored functions" and the simplicity of communicating with channels, I keep surprising myself with how (relatively) quick and easy it is to develop concurrent systems with correct behavior in Go.