[tptacek]

I used to think that, as a C programmer used to passing void-stars around bristling against C++ in 2001 (which, to be fair, was not a good language. I continued to think it through a years of writing Python and Ruby. Then I picked up Go, which I thought I would hate due to typing, and: the opposite thing happened.

Particular example: every time you've accidentally pulled the wrong key out of a map (because that's how everyone does structs in Ruby and Python and Javascript) and gotten a null pointer exception: those were probably type related issues, and they're easily buried and discovered only in production, or through stupidly intensive unit testing, much (not all, but much) of which exists mostly to cover for (wait for it) lack of typing.

[pvg]

Nobody knows where The Citation came from. He passed many a Void Star on his way to Earth.