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Rémi Lavedrine

Goroutines are the Go implementation of concurrency.
And you must not compare Concurrency with Parallelism.

Here is a very good video about it from Rob Pike.

And the associated slides (have a look at it, it is very educational) :
Concurrency is not Parallelism

So it is basically using resources efficiently.
Then you can improve the process using parallelism.

So goroutines are basically the Go implementation of concurrency.

I hope that can help.

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Rémi Lavedrine

To add something to my previous comment, I can point anyone that is interested in Go concurrency models and so goroutines to the best article I have read about it from Trevor Forrey on Medium.
medium.com/@trevor4e/learning-gos-...

It is the perfect one if you are not very used to it and want to learn it the easy way.
And then have a look at his other article. They are absolutely great materials about Go.