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		pjmlp on Oct 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Things Go needs more than generics Kind of true, there is still the possibility to smuggle null values via unsafe, or FFI, but then the fault is on whoever certified the code as safe.

unscaled on Oct 5, 2021 [–]

I was hesitating whether to mention unsafe code blocks or FFI, but the no language that gets thing done can avoid abuse of its escape hatches. Even Haskell has to deal with nulls when doing FFI.

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