More idiomatic way in Go to encode a []byte slice int an int64?

Question

Is there a better or more idiomatic way in Go to encode a []byte slice into an int64?

package main

import \"fmt\"

func main() {
    var mySlice = []byte{244, 2         


        

Answer 1

You can use encoding/binary's ByteOrder to do this for 16, 32, 64 bit types

Play

package main

import "fmt"
import "encoding/binary"

func main() {
    var mySlice = []byte{244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244, 244}
    data := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(mySlice)
    fmt.Println(data)
}