Philippe Gaultier 6/9/2025

What should your mutexes be named?

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The article discusses the challenge of adapting to a new codebase's naming conventions, specifically for mutexes in Go. It uses a code example to question the best naming practice (e.g., barMtx vs. barMux) and demonstrates how to use structural search tools like ast-grep to analyze the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) of a project to discover existing patterns in the Go standard library.

What should your mutexes be named?

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