Goroutines are green threads[1], and thus are threads, just like Ruby 1.8s threads are threads. Also, you can easily run 10s of thousands of kernel threads (pr

Goroutines are green threads[1], and thus are threads, just like Ruby 1.8s threads are threads. Also, you can easily run 10s of thousands of kernel threads (provided you decrease the threads' stack size). 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads