Golang CheatSheet

Zero Values

• integer: 0
• float: 0.0
• boolean: false
• strings: ""
• channel, map, slice, pointer, function, interface: nil

// MD5 hashing example:

import (
    "crypto/md5"
    "encoding/hex"
)

func GetMD5Hash(text string) string {
    hasher := md5.New()
    hasher.Write([]byte(text))
    return hex.EncodeToString(hasher.Sum(nil))
}