[jerf]

I agree; I want non-nillable types in Go. This despite the differences in Go that makes nil values more "valid" than they often are in other languages.

I still faintly hold out hope. Unlike many of the complaints about Go that would require fundamental restructuring, C# showed that actually can be retrofitted onto a language without breaking it.

[pcwalton]

> Unlike many of the complaints about Go that would require fundamental restructuring, C# showed that actually can be retrofitted onto a language without breaking it.

C# added nullable types. Not non-nullable types.

In Go, the concept of zero values is so fundamentally baked into the semantics that non-nil pointers can never really be added to it.

[stcredzero]

I'd just make my own uninitialized type in Go. In fact, I think I've done it. I'd guess you'd want to avoid the boilerplate.