This blog post was originally a comment on a Google Plus page, but apparently one cannot create a href to a comment so it was suggested I rewrite it as a blog post.

Go pointers, like C pointers, are values that, uh, point to other values. This is a tremendously important concept and shouldn’t be considered dangerous or something to get hung up on.

Here are several ways that Go improves over C pointers, and C++, for that matter.