From Strong to Weak: Weak Pointers in Golang 1.24

Описание: Weak Pointers are not a new feature in Golang 1.24 because they were used internally. But now, they are officially available in Go 1.24. Generic Type Aliases also exist in Go 1.24, so feel free to check out this video:    • Go 1.24: Generic Type Aliases are finally ...  


📝 Description
In this video, we are going to cover the weak pointers. We are going to cover why and when to use Weak Pointers and we are going to apply them to a really simplified cache. You will learn the following things:
• What is a Weak Pointer
• When to apply a Weak Pointer
• How to implement a simplified cache using Weak Pointers


⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction
00:26 - What is a Weak Pointer
02:10 - Implementing the highly simplified cache
07:50 - The memory leak
08:34 - Applying Weak Pointers
11:57 - Outro


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The original Go Gopher version is originally designed by Renée French (Source: https://go.dev/blog/gopher License details: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.... The gopher used in the video and thumbnail is inspired by this author.


🤗 Acknowledgments
Thank you, @sascha1461, for the German title fix
Thank you, @kratos_ai, for the French title fix


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