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The atomic Package

Explore the atomic package in Go to understand how to perform atomic operations that cannot be interrupted by other goroutines. Learn how to safely update shared variables without synchronization issues or race conditions by leveraging atomic functions. This lesson equips you to apply atomic counters in concurrent programming efficiently.

An atomic operation

An atomic operation is an operation that is completed in a single step relative to other threads or, in this case, to other goroutines. This means that an atomic operation can’t be interrupted in the ...