Go is an open source programming language made by engineers at Google. The project started development in 2007 and was officially announced in 2009. Go had its first stable release on March 16, 2011. Built in the gc compiler Google Go is developed as an open source software. The language targets all three major platforms (Linux, OS X and windows) but can also run on mobile devices.

Channels are what Goroutines use to communicate with each other. They help Goroutines synchronize their execution. Channels can have directions that restrict them to just sending or receiving. Channels can have several parts to them: the type of element you can send through a channel, its capacity or buffer size and the direction of communication which is specified using a <- operator. Data can be sent from one end and received at the other, similar to how MPI threads communicate. A communication can be sent using '''t <- argument''' Or received using '''variable := <- t'''.

[[https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro/10|Concurrency] [https://tour.golang.org/concurrency/1 A Tour of Go] [https://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism Concurrency is not Parallelism] [https://golang.org/pkg/math/rand/ The Go Programming Language] [http://guzalexander.com/2013/12/06/golang-channels-tutorial.html Golang Channels Tutorial]