Why Go's Goroutines Made Concurrency Finally Click for Me (opens in new tab)

I’ve been writing Python for a long time, and like many developers in that space, I got used to a certain way of thinking about concurrency: async/await, event loops, and carefully managing when things pause and resume. It worked well but sometimes it felt like I was always negotiating with the runtime instead of just expressing what I actually want: “run these things at the same time.” Then I started studying Go (programming language), and specifically goroutines. The Python Mental Model: Co...