If you are curious about core.async and want to learn more you can have a look at the post I wrote on it-- [http://abhirag.in/articles/batman_clojure.html]. I wrote it while trying to learn it myself so not the most advanced resource but I hope somebody finds it helpful :) Note -- The page is kinda resource intensive because it contains a running clojurescript interpreter for interactive code snippets.

thanks for this. btw, your blog is great as well

Glad you liked it :)

Go is verbose? I'm surprised to hear that, to be honest. Can you say what it's verbose in comparison to? What production language/framework has terser concurrency with the same expressiveness?

Clojure for one! But I thought it was a common complaint that Go's lack of support for generics and other language design decisions aimed at keeping things easy make it much more verbose.

That's just a non-user's perspective on the scuttlebutt, though - I don't have any actual experience with Go.

Haskell would be an example of a language that is terser and more expressive with comparable concurrency primitives.

I didn't mean the concurrency, just the language in general. And verbosity isn't always a bad thing. I can dive into pretty much any Go codebase and get a good idea of how it works pretty quickly, and that's been a pretty unique experience for me.