Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video]

Rob Pike's foundational video 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism,' created by Go's co-creator at Google, is circulating again on Hacker News. The talk clarifies a distinction often confused in programming: concurrency refers to composing independently executing processes, while parallelism means actually running those tasks simultaneously. Though the video was created years ago, it resurfaces periodically as a key resource for developers building concurrent systems.

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