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 …

Is there anything similar to a slice.contains(object) method in Go without having to do a search through each element in a slice?

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 …

Is there a simple way to format a string in Go without printing the string? I can do: bar := "bar" fmt.Printf("foo: %s", bar) But I want the formatted string returned rather than printed so I can

This code selects all xml files in the same folder, as the invoked executable and asynchronously applies processing to each result in the callback method (in the example below, just the name …

How does one specify the maximum value representable for an unsigned integer type? I would like to know how to initialize min in the loop below that iteratively computes min and max …

Go's range can iterate over maps and slices, but I was wondering if there is a way to iterate over a range of numbers, something like this: for i := range [1..10] { fmt.Println(i) } Or is ther...

229 Say I want to get https://golang.org programatically. Currently golang.org (ssl) has a bad certificate which is issued to *.appspot.com So when I run this:

That said, golang treats a string as a slice of runes and I'm not sure if one refers to a slice as empty or zero length. I would imagine that consistency is better. I was once an ASM clock …

According to golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Post, "Caller should close resp.Body when done reading from it. If the provided body is an io.Closer, it is closed after the request." How can I tell, as a …