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Re:Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future by kreetx on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:57PM (#17382775)
But there's an upside, no? There is no way to reference an undefined variable in go? So if the compiler is correct, so will be the result, and errors would be found compile time.

(written by a non-go-expert)

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Re:Web Assembly and Go: A look to the future by ovao on Monday June 25, 2018 @12:12AM (#17389843)
While you cannot reference an undefined variable in Go, you can still dereference nil pointers and invoke other operations that result in a panic (some of the standard library functions can panic).
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