Should you use slices of pointers to structs? (www.willem.dev)

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While writing Go, you might might run into the following situation: You want to collect the results of a function in a slice. However, the function returns a pointer.

You might then ask yourself:

What kind of slice should I use? A slice of values or a slice of pointers?

Let’s make this a bit more concrete.

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