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Comment by Exoristos

1 day ago

Isn't Go strongly, statically typed?

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madeofpalk  1 day ago

For various definitions of "strong". People (ab)use pointers to hack in nil support, and the type system can't perform nil checks for you, so you still end up with runtime errors if you're not careful enough.

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