Earlier this week, I had the privilege of attending to an sneak preview of Andrew Gerrand’s talk “Stupid Gopher Tricks”, which he should be presenting at the Golang UK conference as I publish these lines. It’s a great talk about lesser-known Go features. I won’t spoil his talk here, you should instead attend the next conference if you can or check out the slides once they become available. But there was one element in the talk that caught particularly my attention. atomic.Value. Whi...