Understanding Pointers in Go; The Two Runes (& and *) of Go

A thorough guide to addresses, pointers, and the elegant dance between them - grounded in how your computer's RAM actually works, with real examples, and an honest look at the trade-offs. Table of Contents Let's Start with a Story How RAM Actually Works RAM is a flat, indexed array of bytes How the CPU reads and writes memory What a "variable" actually is at runtime Memory alignment The Stack and The Heap The Stack The Heap Escape analysis: Go decides for you From RAM to Pointers - The Bridge Th