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		jfindley on April 28, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Some thoughts on Go and Erlang It's worth pointing out that there is an upside of shared state, in that goroutines are extremely cheap to create. There's also a fairly decent race detector[1], and clear documentation on what is and isn't thread safe. 1: http://blog.golang.org/race-detector

samth on April 28, 2014 [–]

The cheapness of goroutines (which is a good thing indeed) has nothing to do with shared state. Erlang processes are even cheaper.

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