Singleton in go

Question

How does one implement the Singleton design pattern in the go programming language?

Answer 1

I think that in a concurrent world we need to be a bit more aware that these lines are not executed atomically:

if instantiated == nil {
    instantiated = new(single);
}

I would follow the suggestion of @marketer and use the package "sync"

import "sync"

type MySingleton struct {

}

var _init_ctx sync.Once 
var _instance *MySingleton

func New() * MySingleton {
     _init_ctx.Do( func () { _instance = new(MySingleton) }  )
     return _instance 
}