Go maps in action

I don't really get it. It's a hash. Big deal.<p>I know what a hash is. Wow, Go has hashes. Yeah, I knew that too.<p><i>blinks</i> So... yeah. I mean, it's the Go blog, so cool. Blog about things in the language, but in terms of 'interesting things about Go' or 'interesting things about tech I expect to see on hacker news frontpage' this is pretty much a 0 for me...

The fact that slices cannot be used as keys in maps was, for me, a fairly big turn off.

Very helpful, thanks for posting this! The parts about map declaration vs. make() vs. new() are the most valuable tidbits, I think. A lot of the rest is mostly just very handy tips and pointers.

Go everyday, but still going.