Go: What is the Unsafe Package?

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ℹ️ This article is based on Go 1.12.

The name of the package could let us know that we should not use it. To understand the reasons that it could be unsafe to use this package, let’s first refer to the documentation:

Package unsafe contains operations that step around the type safety of Go programs.
Packages that import unsafe may be non-portable and are not protected by the Go 1…