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Curriculum Idioms & ecosystem Common gotchas exercise 8 · freeform

Common gotchas


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The "what bit me in code review" survival kit:

  • Loop variable capture (Go 1.22+ helped, but you should still know).
  • Nil interface vs nil concrete (a non-nil pointer inside an interface variable makes the interface non-nil).
  • Slice aliasing — two slices sharing a backing array.
  • Goroutine leaks — a goroutine waiting on a channel that nobody will ever send to.