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You know a lot more about these things than I do.

That said: Aren't the equivalent pointers in .Net _only_ allowed/usable if you pin your object? If you tell the GC explicitly 'please don't move that, I'm pointing to that thing here'?

That's hard to bolt on to Go, imho. For Go it seems to be implicitly allowed, in .Net you have to ask explicitly?

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Go's GC is non-moving, exactly because they can't precisely know what a pointer is and what is just some random int.

So it's basically as if all objects are pinned in Go. I don't expect that to change. There are probably tons of Go code out there which will break in response to a change.

I guess it will be pushed back to some mystical "2.0" release, along with Generics.

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