{"id":135963,"date":"2024-09-16T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?page_id=135963"},"modified":"2024-09-16T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T04:29:28","slug":"maps-in-go","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/maps-in-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Maps in Go"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maps in Go are unordered collections of key-value pairs. The keys must be unique and of a comparable type, while the values can be of any type. 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