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• masklinn 6y ago
  IDK, having never seen or used Go's contexts, the `With` prefix immediately made me think that it likely created a new context: it's a common naming convention in Rust or Python. I'd have expected `SetValue` for updating keys in-place. That `WithValue` creates an "inheritance" relationship surprised me a lot more, that I did not expect.
• morelisp 6y ago
  `context.Background()` doesn't allocate anything, it gives you the runtime's singular top-level context.