Philippe Gaultier • 8/22/2025

An amusing blind spot in Go's static analysis

This technical article examines a specific blind spot in Go's static analysis tools. It details a bug in a Go test where a for loop iterates over an empty string slice, causing the test to pass trivially. The author discusses why this is visually easy to miss in Go's syntax, notes that common linters don't catch it, and provides a regex to find similar issues. It's a focused discussion on Go programming, testing, and compiler behavior.

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#testing #programming #static analysis