Do The Go Playground Share Links Expire?

[apl (Aaron)]

Hi!

I’ve just started my journey learning Golang and I’ve been practicing primarily in The Go Playground. In my notes, I’ve kept links to the code I’ve practiced. Before I continue using the playground this way, I wanted to ask: do I need to worry about Go Playground share links not working anymore?

Thanks!

[s0xzwasd (Daniil Maslov)]

Hi,

As far as I know, the Go team doesn’t share any thoughts on links expire. My old links work pretty well, but if you plan to store code snippets in Playground, I would say that Github & Github Gists is a better place for it.

[apl (Aaron)]

Thanks, I’ve also just started actually using GitHub as well, so I’ll make sure to (learn how to) add them there.

[Dean_Davidson]

Yeah - echoing what @s0xzwasd said, I don’t believe they have an official stance on whether or not they will ever prune old code from the playground. If you don’t want to lose your code, store it in a github repo (learning how to use source control is a great skill as well if you’re not already proficient). That said, take a look at this answer on StackOverflow. It has playground links from 2016 that are still working fine. So, it’s reasonable to assume Google isn’t going to prune your code.