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Origins of Go Concurrency style by Rob Pike

jasonofthel33t · 28.1K views · 2012-10-28 · 38:19

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Rob Pike's 2010 talk at OSCON's Emerging Languages Camp on where Go's concurrency style comes from. It traces the idea from Hoare's CSP through Squeak, Newsqueak and Limbo to Go.

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HN recommends it as the clearest account of the CSP lineage behind Go's goroutines and channels.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2013–2025

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why-el · 2019-01 · Recommendation

Squeak was the inspiration for Newsqueak by Rob Pike, co-author of Golang. A lot of the concurrency ideas can be traced to this timeline, some fascinating stuff there. Check out this video by Pike: [VIDEO] .

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bishop_mandible · 2014-09 · Recommendation

The Blit video he mentions: [LINK] A similarly interesting talk by him on CSP-inspired languages (Occam, Erlang, Squeak, Newsqueak, Limbo, Alef, Go): [VIDEO] Slides (not shown in the video): [LINK] Interesting as well: From parellel to concurrent (on Sawzall and Go): [LINK]

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canthonytucci · 2013-09 · Recommendation

For those who don't know who Rob Pike is, he's pretty awesome, helped create UTF-8 among other things, and now works on Go. [LINK] He has given some really great Go talks which are available on youtube, about an hour each: Origins of Go Concurrency Style - [VIDEO] Lexical Scanning in Go - [LINK] Go Concurrency Patterns (One of my favorites) - [LINK]

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