[masklinn]

> Granted, i left out nil pointer/interface panics because it seems unrealistic given how difficult it was for Rust to get rid of nil pointers.

That wasn't really a difficult part, it's just a basic application of generic enums.

Now Go doesn't have (userland) generics or enums, but they could have taken the same path as other languages (and the one Go is wont to take): special-case it. Which they probably can't anymore because of zero-valuing, you can't have a zero value for non-null pointers.