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speaking from personal experience, i selected go for a project because it is high perf, automatically uses all cores w/ goroutines, and is type checked

• triyambakam 3y ago
  > type checked Kinda...
  • 65a 3y ago
    It is a type safe language, not exactly sure what you're hinting at here.
    • madeofpalk 3y ago
      This entire post is a big workaround go's insufficient type system because nil is not modelled in it. That's not safe.
      • 65a 3y ago
        I agree I probably should have said strongly typed instead of safe, as yes, if you dereference a pointer to nil you are going to crash. That being said, I do think "possesses an untyped nil" is a pretty far cry from "not type checked at all". It's certainly much safer than languages like C or C++ which allow type punning, or Java, where both nullables and runtime exceptions associated with types are generally a more pernicious problem.
        • pjmlp 3y ago
          Also possible in Go via unsafe.
          • 65a 3y ago
            Which does what it says on the tin :)