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Re:Things Go needs more than generics by ebingdom on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:32AM (#28744092)
I'm not who you're responding to, but the fact that interfaces/pointers (among other things) are nullable and there is no way to make them non-nullable is a problem with Go. A lot of bugs in Go programs are due to calling methods on those types and getting a null pointer error.

Your claims are correct, but it feels like you're missing the point they are (ineffectively) making.

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Re:Things Go needs more than generics by tsimionescu on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:37AM (#28744124)
Sure, that is why I added my second paragraph recognizing that things aren't all great, but still Go is a little better than Java for example in this area, where literally every non-primitive type is nullable.
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