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Re:Durable Coroutines for Go by ilyt on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:11PM (#37961585)
They just seem pretty pointless as a tool in language that already have super-light green threads and good concurrency primitives.
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Re:Durable Coroutines for Go by pryz on Friday October 20, 2023 @05:35PM (#37961824)
https://research.swtch.com/coro might be an interesting read.
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Re:Durable Coroutines for Go by ilyt on Saturday October 21, 2023 @06:41PM (#37971152)
Doesn't answer question "why?"

In other languages they were used coz they were far lighter than native threads but that's not the case in Go

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