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Arrays vs slices

Translate xs.slice(0, 3) and xs.slice(3) to idiomatic Go. Both endpoints in Go's slice expression are optional — omit them to default to 0 and len(xs).

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Go has fixed-size arrays ([N]T) and dynamically-sized slices ([]T). You almost always want slices. A slice is a view over a backing array — three machine words: pointer, length, capacity. append grows it; make pre-sizes it. The mental model is closer to Rust's Vec than to TS's Array.