Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> writes:

| Aren't goroutines basically a
| lightweight version of Erlang IPC, or
| have I misunderstood something about
| both languages?

They're similar, but Go channels are
unbuffered, and they are first-class,
not attached one-for-one to processes,
like in Erlang.  That separation is nice
because it means one can pass channels
around independently of
processes/goroutines.