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  • noun computing, programming A lightweight communicating process in the Go programming language.

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Go +‎ routine, to rhyme with coroutine.

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Examples

  • Basically, it creates a chain of 100,000 microthreads (tasklet, goroutine, process ... take your pick), sends a value in one end and waits for the result at the other end.

    Planet Python 2010

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