A nice small article on when it makes sense to use pointers in | CatOps

A nice small article on when it makes sense to use pointers in Go.

As with the previous article, if you write in Go a lot that would probably provide you no new information. However, if you’re just learning it or switching from another language like Python, or writing Go code not that frequent; this article should be interesting.

And a quote:

In fact, I'll quote Ben Darnell, who is the lead engineer of CockroachDB (built in Go) :

"Whenever in doubt, use a value instead of a pointer"


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