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And Node has workers and can thus achieve parallelism as well. What matters isn't whether the language can achieve parallelism: it's whether the language is designed for it. Go is designed for concurrency, not parallelism.

It's Rob Pike's view [1] that concurrency enables parallelism "for free". I think that's oversimplified and at odds with the way people who write CPU-bound code actually use parallelism features, but that's how Go was designed: it omits traditional parallelism features in favor of concurrency features.

[1]: https://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism



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