Should you use slices of pointers to structs?
Should you use slices of pointers to structs?
www.willem.dev Should you use a slice of pointers to structs in Go/Golang?
What is the difference between a slice of pointers and a slice of values? And when should you use one or the other? This article explains.
While writing Go, you might might run into the following situation: You want to collect the results of a function in a slice. However, the function returns a pointer.
You might then ask yourself:
What kind of slice should I use? A slice of values or a slice of pointers?
Let’s make this a bit more concrete.
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