The Archetypal Go Program: Servers, Goroutines, and Scheduling

This post gives an answer to the question: why Go is optimized for concurrent I/O-intensive systems such as network services. A programming language is not only syntax, but also a runtime implementation. Runtime is the part of the executing program where data structures and algorithms that support syntactic constructs of the language are implemented. Namely, the implementation of dictionaries (maps), sets, asynchrony, parallelism, and concurrency (which are not the same thing). Golang is uniqu