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by zozbot234 444 days ago
> Now even Java has cheap threads

If by "cheap threads" you mean M:N threads a.k.a. fibers/green threads, Java had that on Solaris well before Go.

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That's not even remotely the same thing as the current virtual threads, that automagically turn (many kind of) blocking IO into non-blocking.
If "automagically" means "the way Golang does it" then that's kinda the whole point of M:N threads/fibers.
My point was that green threads are not at all the same as virtual threads.