The atomic Package
Let’s learn to use atomic operations in Go to prevent race conditions.
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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 middle of it. The Go Standard library offers the atomic package, which, in some simple cases, can help us avoid using a mutex. With the ...