Comment by nasretdinov
5 days ago
Not necessarily: you can go quite far with Go alone. It also makes it trivial to run "green threads" code, so if you need both (decent) performance and easy async code then Go still might be a good fit. Despite Go being pretty high level GC language on the surface it actually allows you to control stuff like struct layout, CPU affinity, etc, which typically matter more for performance than just a programming language of choice. There's a reason why e.g. VictoriaMetrics is still in Go even though they could've easily chosen any other language too
In what way does Go have async?
Well, essentially Go doesn't have a separate async keyword because all goroutines run asynchronously under the hood. In the beginning the advised (and default) way of running Go code was GOMAXPROCS=1, essentially ensuring there is no actual parallelism, just asynchronous code. Since then, of course, around Go 1.5, the default switched to number of cores, making goroutines both async and parallel
Aren't goroutines by their nature asynchronous? Am I misunderstanding what you mean by 'async'?
Asynchronous is a programming style; it does NOT apply to Go. The goroutines run in parallel. Also, don't use complicated words when simple words will do.
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