In the previous post, I have told about unsafe package motivation and functions. There is one more thing left unexplained type Pointer This type represents a pointer to an arbitrary type, which means that unsafe.Pointer can be converted to the pointer value of any type or uintptr and back. You might be wondering: are there any restrictions? No, and yes … you can convert Pointer however you want but you have to deal with consequences. ...

Unsafe package explained This time I held a talk at Lviv Golang community event in Lviv, Ukraine. I was talking about unsafe package and tried to answer how unsafe is unsafe package. Unsafe package has a concise and descriptive name, which warns you even if you don’t know what possibilities this package provides and at what price. I love the name as it follows all recommendations from “Effective Go”. ...

Sync package primitives explained. Recently I have visited GopherConEU 2019 that took place on the beautiful Canary Islands, Tenerife. I have presented my lightning talk about sync package primitives and how to use them, in my case to manage attraction in an amusement park. This post will try to help in case you want to explore sync package or missed something from my talk. When you build your program, usually you have complete concept, idea that you understand, so with input in one place, you always can tell where will be the output. ...