While a majority of programming languages such as C++ or Java use multithreading for running concurrent programs, Go uses Goroutines. Multithreading is where multiple threads are run in parallel within a single process. This could be your browser playing music and running a search engine at the same time, or your word processing software displaying your input while checking the grammar. The issue with multithreading is that it requires context switching, where the OS scheduler manages the swi...

While a majority of programming languages such as C++ or Java use multithreading for running concurrent programs, Go uses Goroutines. Multithreading is where multiple threads are run in parallel within a single process. This could be your browser playing music and running a search engine at the same time, or your word processing software displaying your input while checking the grammar. The issue with multithreading is that it requires context switching, where the OS scheduler manages the swi...