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[โ€“] EntirelyUnlovable@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This looks like Go, so I think this would be a 2d array (or slice as Go calls it) of bytes, with starting length 0. Go has an optional 3rd parameter for capacity

[โ€“] tetris11@feddit.uk 4 points 4 months ago

Interesting, thanks! I find it weird for it to be assigned to a buffer variable if no initial fixed size is given