In golang is there a nice way of getting a slice of values from a map?

Unfortunately, no. There is no builtin way to do this.

As a side note, you can omit the capacity argument in your slice creation:

v := make([]string, len(m))

The capacity is implied to be the same as the length here.

As an addition to jimt's post:

You may also use append rather than explicitly assigning the values to their indices:

m := make(map[int]string)

m[1] = "a"
m[2] = "b"
m[3] = "c"
m[4] = "d"

v := make([]string, 0, len(m))

for  _, value := range m {
   v = append(v, value)
}

Note that the length is zero (no elements present yet) but the capacity (allocated space) is initialized with the number of elements of m. This is done so append does not need to allocate memory each time the capacity of the slice v runs out.

You could also make the slice without the capacity value and let append allocate the memory for itself.

Not necessarily better, but the cleaner way to do this is by defining both the Slice LENGTH and CAPACITY like txs := make([]Tx, 0, len(txMap))

    // Defines the Slice capacity to match the Map elements count
    txs := make([]Tx, 0, len(txMap))

    for _, tx := range txMap {
        txs = append(txs, tx)
    }

Full example:

package main

import (
    "github.com/davecgh/go-spew/spew"
)

type Tx struct {
    from  string
    to    string
    value uint64
}

func main() {
    // Extra touch pre-defining the Map length to avoid reallocation
    txMap := make(map[string]Tx, 3)
    txMap["tx1"] = Tx{"andrej", "babayaga", 10}
    txMap["tx2"] = Tx{"andrej", "babayaga", 20}
    txMap["tx3"] = Tx{"andrej", "babayaga", 30}

    txSlice := getTXsAsSlice(txMap)
    spew.Dump(txSlice)
}

func getTXsAsSlice(txMap map[string]Tx) []Tx {
    // Defines the Slice capacity to match the Map elements count
    txs := make([]Tx, 0, len(txMap))
    for _, tx := range txMap {
        txs = append(txs, tx)
    }

    return txs
}

Simple solution but a lot of gotchas. Read this blog post for more details: https://web3.coach/golang-how-to-convert-map-to-slice-three-gotchas