Origins of Go Concurrency style by Rob Pike

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as the clearest account of the CSP lineage behind Go's goroutines and channels.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

jasonofthel33t

Topic

go concurrency origins

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• For those who don't know who Rob Pike is, he's pretty awesome, helped create UTF-8 among other things, and now works on Go. [LINK] He has given some really great Go talks which are available on youtube, about an hour each: Origins of Go Concurrency …

• The Blit video he mentions: [LINK] A similarly interesting talk by him on CSP-inspired languages (Occam, Erlang, Squeak, Newsqueak, Limbo, Alef, Go): [VIDEO] Slides (not shown in the video): [LINK] Interesting as well: From parellel to concurrent (on Sawzall and Go): [LINK]

• Squeak was the inspiration for Newsqueak by Rob Pike, co-author of Golang. A lot of the concurrency ideas can be traced to this timeline, some fascinating stuff there. Check out this video by Pike: [VIDEO] .