When to use Pointers in Go w/ Practical Example - Heap/Stack, Pointer Receiver

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Understanding Allocations: the Stack and the Heap by Jacob Walker - GopherCon SG 2019:
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When to use pointers in Go by Dylan Meeus:
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Go doc on Pointer Receiver:
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0:00 Intro - Stack & Heap; How it is different in Golang 0:30 Common idea of pointers; Why passing pointers in Go is often slower than passing values 1:13 Understanding Allocations: the Stack & the Heap (GopherCon presentation by Jacob Walker) 2:00 How Go typically stores variables in the stack vs. heap 3:10 Visualization of stack - a scenario where stack will not work 4:02 Summary of Understanding Allocations 4:48 4 different use cases of pointers in Go 5:18 Overview of code example 6:39 An example of "sharing up" the pointer to the User struct (stored in the heap) 7:56 Case 2 & 3: Mutability of the receiver function & Consistency 9:21 Case 4: Signify true absence (make a nullable variable)

[@antonjatula8421]

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[@dhij]

Appreciate it!!

[@apidas]

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[@dhij]

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[@dhij]

Glad that helped!!