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Equality

Explore how Go supports different equality checks using operators like ==, reflect.DeepEqual, and bytes.Equal. Learn the strengths and limitations of each method, including what types can be compared, how to handle uncomparable fields, and performance considerations for struct comparisons.

There are different ways to compare things in Go, none of them is perfect.

Operators == and !=

The equality operator is the simplest and often most efficient way to compare things in Go, but it only works on certain things. Most notably it doesn’t work on slices or maps. Slices and maps can only be compared to nil this way.

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