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 …

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...

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.

Jun 13, 2018 · You have a pointer variable which after declaration will be nil. If you want to set the pointed value, it must point to something. Attempting to dereference a nil pointer is a runtime …

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 …

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 …

this is not a "bad certificate" it's a certificate with a different CN. InsecureSkipVerify is not a legitimate use here. You must set ServerName in the tls.Config to match what you are trying to …

Apr 11, 2012 · Also, what's to say a new Golang programmer isn't starting with something that does lots of these conversions? I'm an experienced programmer writing my first Golang code …

What is a rune in Go? I've been googling but Golang only says in one line: rune is an alias for int32. But how come integers are used all around like swapping cases? The following is a …