Be prepared to be called a newbie for criticising typed nils. My post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=449824

Be prepared to be called a newbie for criticising typed nils. My post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982491 got a lot of hate from people who defend Go by saying "so just don't do that!", and people trying to explain my own blog post to me.