The 1978 Paper Behind Go’s Concurrency Model
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Every Go developer eventually hears this sentence: Do not communicate by sharing memory; share memory by communicating. At first, it sounds like a nice Go proverb. But the more concurrent systems you build, the more you realize it is not just a slogan. It is a completely different way of thinking about software design. When I first started working deeply with Go concurrency, I mostly thought about goroutines as “lightweight threads” and channels as “safe queues.” That mental model is usefu