If you only share state by passing messages you should be fine. The challenge is to make sure the "only" part. Erlang's reduction-based scheduling basically co

If you only share state by passing messages you should be fine. The challenge is to make sure the "only" part. Erlang's reduction-based scheduling basically counts how many steps each process has executed, and automatically switches to other processes once a process has finished a certain number of reductions. So even if a process is running tight loops, it would not starve other processes. Go's scheduler currently cannot promise that.