https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/goroutines/ Recent content in Goroutines on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:07:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2019/04/goroutines-are-not-threads-the-mental-model-shift/ Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:07:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2019/04/goroutines-are-not-threads-the-mental-model-shift/ Coming from Java, I initially modelled goroutines as lightweight threads. That model is mostly right but subtly wrong in ways that matter — understanding the Go scheduler changes how you think about goroutine lifecycle and blocking.