Unit 7. Concurrent programming

Computers are excellent at doing many things at the same time. You might want the computer to speed up a calculation, download many web pages simultaneously, or control different parts of a robot independently. This ability to deal with several things at once is called concurrency.

Go has a different approach to concurrency than most other programming languages. Any Go code can be made concurrent by starting it in a goroutine. Goroutines use channels for communication and coordination, making it straightforward to have multiple concurrent tasks working toward the same end.