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It was designed at Google [13] in 2009 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, and Ken Thompson. [4] It is syntactically similar to C, but also has memory safety, garbage collection, structural typing, [7] and CSP-style concurrency. [14] It is often referred to as Golang to avoid ambiguity and because of its former domain name, golang.org, but its ...
Protocol Buffers (Protobuf) is a free and open-source cross-platform data format used to serialize structured data. It is useful in developing programs that communicate with each other over a network or for storing data.
In computer science, a composite data type or compound data type is a data type that consists of programming language scalar data types and other composite types that may be heterogeneous and hierarchical in nature.
The NEWID function in Microsoft SQL Server version 4 Transact-SQL returns standard random version-4 UUIDs, while the NEWSEQUENTIALID function returns 128-bit identifiers similar to UUIDs which are committed to ascend in sequence until the next system reboot. [32] The Oracle Database SYS_GUID function does not return a standard GUID, despite the ...
Access modifiers are a specific part of programming language syntax used to facilitate the encapsulation of components. [1] In C++, there are only three access modifiers. C# extends the number of them to six, [2] while Java has four access modifiers, but three keywords for this purpose. In Java, having no keyword before defaults to the package ...
Untagged unions depend on program logic to correctly identify the currently active field, which may result in strange behavior and hard-to-find bugs if that logic fails. The primary advantage of a tagged union over a simple record containing a field for each type is that it saves storage by overlapping storage for all the types. Some ...
Many languages have explicit pointers or references. Reference types differ from these in that the entities they refer to are always accessed via references; for example, whereas in C++ it's possible to have either a std:: string and a std:: string *, where the former is a mutable string and the latter is an explicit pointer to a mutable string (unless it's a null pointer), in Java it is only ...
In computer science, an opaque data type is a data type whose concrete data structure is not defined in an interface.This enforces information hiding, since its values can only be manipulated by calling subroutines that have access to the missing information.