Go Concurrency Distilled: all of Go's concurrency in one place

Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In 2015 I wrote an article about what I liked about Go, and one of the things I found hardest to explain back then was concurrency. Goroutines looked like threads, but they weren’t. They ran “independently”, but not necessarily in parallel. It all sounded a bit odd until you sat down and wrote some code.

Eleven years later, Anton Zhiyanov has published exactly the resource I would have liked to have that afternoon: Go Concurrency Distilled, a free mini-book that covers all of Go’s concurrency on a single page, with interactive examples you can edit and run in the browser.

Concurrency on Antonio Cortés (DrZippie)

Go Concurrency Distilled: all of Go's concurrency in one place