[nerdwaller]

I don't particularly find that inconsistent, though it's usage may not be super common (depending on the type of work you do in go). If you ever need to do atomic operations, it's rather helpful. Though they have been adding new features in go 1.19+ that help there (Int32[1] type, for example). As an aside, for those using atomics - Uber's wrapper library[2] is pretty pleasant to use.

[1] - https://pkg.go.dev/sync/atomic#Int32 [2] - https://pkg.go.dev/go.uber.org/atomic