Jul 26, 2013 · What is the difference between the = and := operators, and what are the use cases for them? They both seem to be for an assignment?

Golang does not allow pointer-arithmetic (arrays do not decay to pointers) and insecure casting. All downcasts will be checked using the runtime-type of the variable and either panic or return …

Apr 27, 2011 · Could someone please explain to me the usage of << and >> in Go? I guess it is similar to some other languages.

Oct 16, 2012 · @StephenWeinberg: Yes, my "nothing really" answer to the "what's the difference" quote is answering the question that was asked about the difference between the slice …

I want to check if two structs, slices and maps are equal. But I'm running into problems with the following code. See my comments at the relevant lines. package main import ( "fmt" "refl...

As of June 2021 there is a community fork golang-jwt/jwt, officially blessed by Dave Grijalva, the original author. This also means that the library import path has changed. Note that the current …

I think not having optional parameters is a good decision. I've seen optional parameters abused pretty severely in C++ -- 40+ arguments. It's very error-prone to count through the arguments …

I could find the conventions for naming packages in Go: no underscore between words, everything lowercase. Does this convention apply to the filenames too? Do you also put one …

Nov 14, 2013 · 8 As others have noted, golang does not have a ternary operator or any equivalent. This is a deliberate decision thought to improve readability.

I want to capture the Ctrl+C (SIGINT) signal sent from the console and print out some partial run totals.