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Except goroutines will absolutely spawn a thread which a coroutine by definition wont.

Goroutines are parallel, coroutine are concurrent. Those are not the same thing.

Coroutines co-operatively yeild to other coroutines. Parallel constructs run in parallel at the same time. Goroutines can run in parallel at the same time and thus are not a coroutine.




My understanding is that goroutines don't spawn threads per-se. They can be executed on parallel event loops, but that can be true for stackess coroutines in c++ for example.


Yeah goroutines are a pretty high level abstraction but they are definitely closer in concept to green threads than to coroutines.

You can run a C++ coroutine on a seperate thread but you effectively need to build all the task handling logic yourself of use a library that's build that out. Goroutines you don't need to use a specialised sleep fuction which is actually changing coroutine state, setting a timer and yeilding. You just sleep as an example




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