Pointers are conflated with Option-types in go. Understandably, because go wants to be as simple as possible, has those nasty zero-values as "solution", had no

Pointers are conflated with Option-types in go. Understandably, because go wants to be as simple as possible, has those nasty zero-values as "solution", had no generics for a long time, and will probably never have sum-types. So, guess if it's a pointer or an Option, and hope that your peers guess the same.