Pointer or Value Receiver in Go? The 3 Cases That Settle the Argument

Book: The Complete Guide to Go Programming Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub You open a PR review on a Go service. The diff adds three new methods on Counter . Two have value receivers, one has a pointer receiver. Three files later, Cache is the same way: most methods on the value, a few on