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> there are many languages in popular use that can do this, in many cases better than golang

I'd love to see a list of these, with any references you can provide.

>>antonc+(OP)
Erlang, Elixir, Ada, plenty of others. Erlang and Ada predate Go by several decades, too.

You wanted sources, here's the chapter on tasks and synchronization in the Ada LRM: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/22rm/html/RM-9.html

For Erlang and Elixir, concurrent programming is pretty much their thing so grab any book or tutorial on them and you'll be introduced to how they handle it.

>>antonc+(OP)
Haskell would be one of them. It features transactional memory, which frees the programmer from having to think about explicitly locking.