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Curriculum Concurrency Goroutines exercise 4 · fill-word

Goroutines

Type the keyword that launches a function call as a goroutine. TypeScript has no single-keyword equivalent — closest is queueMicrotask(fn) or setTimeout(fn, 0), neither of which produces true parallelism. Go's keyword is two letters.

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go fn() runs fn concurrently with the caller. That's it. No promises, no async/await, no event loop — the runtime multiplexes goroutines over OS threads. Cheap to start (kilobytes of stack). And the discipline: never start a bare goroutine whose lifetime you can't reason about.