Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns

Why HN readers recommended it

The canonical recommendation for learning Go concurrency, praised as entertaining and clarifying when to use channels versus mutexes.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Google for Developers

Topic

go concurrency

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

9

HN mentions in dataset

19

Recommendation years in dataset

2012–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Great talk by Rob Pike: [VIDEO] "Go Concurrency Patterns" with cute little gophers playing Chinese whispers with megaphones

• 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 …

• In one word: channels. They might be theoretically equivalent to some degree, but in practice they are quite different, and I find reasoning about both concurrency and parallelism using goroutines and channels much more natural. Also see this talk by Rob Pike on the origins …