[Laiho]

I've been wondering what is the "new" innovation about concurrency is in Go? Since most languages provide some type of channel/lightweight thread, what is the hype all about? I don't think Go makes the "hard" stuff in concurrency any easier, mainly the easy stuff becomes very easy, but in concurency most your time is spent in the "hard" parts.

[mrkeen]

They work just like Haskell channels, but without the ability to use them transactionally.

[matrix87]

Ig because it had user level threads before java, which apparently is adding them in an upcoming version