Chapter Takeaways
- Reflection enables runtime type inspection but should be used sparingly
context.Context provides standard cancellation and timeout mechanisms- Profiling tools (
pprof) help identify performance bottlenecks
- CGO enables C interop but adds complexity and build requirements
- Build tags enable platform-specific and conditional compilation
- The
embed package (Go 1.16+) embeds files directly into binaries
- Workspace mode (Go 1.18+) simplifies multi-module development
- Go's garbage collector is concurrent and efficient
- Escape analysis determines stack vs heap allocation