Using goroutines in golang is not dissimilar from threads in other languages (except that you can spawn much more of them), with all the downfalls and gotchas.

Using goroutines in golang is not dissimilar from threads in other languages (except that you can spawn much more of them), with all the downfalls and gotchas. As a matter of fact, it's even worse than other languages with proper concurrency libraries and data structures (e.g. it has nothing remotely close to Java's `java.util.concurrent` package). What we see with golang is a phenomenon where people just parrot what some well known figures said at some point in time, without proper evidence or any basis (and in some cases, even when the evidence is counter to those claims). I'm looking forward to Java's green thread implementation (project Loom), as it has proper ways to manage cancellation and deadlines and hierarchies, all of which have are quite verbose and error prone, or not supported at all in golang.