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Comment by guywithahat

13 hours ago

I love the idea of using Go for games, but go-routines and channels aren't really low-enough latency to be used in games. In particular, ebiten, one of the largest go game engines doesn't use a single go-routine under the hood for (presumably) this very reason. Attempting to use channels and such in my own project (https://thomashansen.xyz/blog/ebiten-and-go.html) left me with about 70% cpu utilization I couldn't pass