Linux has very non Posixy ideas about threads, which are basically processes with shared memory. libc is supposed to present a Posix compatible interface. See [

Linux has very non Posixy ideas about threads, which are basically processes with shared memory. libc is supposed to present a Posix compatible interface. See [1] for some examples. Go simply exposes raw syscalls. [1] http://ewontfix.com/17/ http://ewontfix.com/17/