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by Joker_vD 1754 days ago
> types which are always heap-allocated and sitting behind an invisible (and un-interactible) pointer

> A map is just a heap-allocated structure sitting behind a pointer.

And the difference is?.. Because maps in Go behave exactly as if they were un-referenceable pointers to the hidden, heap-allocated hashtables.