Go Synchronization Establishes Observation, Not Execution Order
Use Go happens-before guarantees for visibility without assuming goroutine scheduling, lock fairness, or race-detector completeness.
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Go Slice append May Reuse or Replace the Backing Array
Predict Go slice aliasing with length and capacity, limit append with full slice expressions, and copy when storage must be independent.
Go Context Cancellation: Ownership, Causes, and Detachment
Propagate Go context cancellation down call trees, release derived-context resources, preserve causes, and detach work safely.
Go Interfaces Can Hold Typed Nil Pointers
Understand why a Go interface containing a nil pointer is not nil, how assertions behave, and how to prevent non-nil error surprises.
Go Error Trees: Use errors.Is, errors.As, and errors.Join
Inspect wrapped and joined Go errors by identity or type, preserve context with %w, and make deliberate error API commitments.