How can I check if two slices are equal?

You need to loop over each of the elements in the slice and test. Equality for slices is not defined. However, there is a bytes.Equal function if you are comparing values of type []byte.

func testEq(a, b []Type) bool {

    // If one is nil, the other must also be nil.
    if (a == nil) != (b == nil) { 
        return false; 
    }

    if len(a) != len(b) {
        return false
    }

    for i := range a {
        if a[i] != b[i] {
            return false
        }
    }

    return true
}

We also could use reflect.DeepEqual(). Slice values are deeply equal when all of the following are true: they are both nil or both non-nil, they have the same length, and either they point to the same initial entry of the same underlying array (that is, &x0 == &y0) or their corresponding elements (up to length) are deeply equal. Note that a non-nil empty slice and a nil slice (for example, []byte{} and []byte(nil)) are not deeply equal.