I’ve had a great deal of experience with Go and there are many who’d argue that nil pointers in there is a mistake as well (though I’ve personally never had an

I’ve had a great deal of experience with Go and there are many who’d argue that nil pointers in there is a mistake as well (though I’ve personally never had an issue - but I do write pretty robust tests too). I have ran into some instances when I have needed nullable fields in relational databases as well. I’m not claiming null shouldn’t exist. My point was that they should be an opt in rather than opt out because they cause more problems than generally they solve.