I think this one difficult subject does not take away from the common feeling that overall Go is simple. This is like looking at a small scratch on the car and claiming the entire car is damaged.
“Simple” means the definition has been kept compact, which should suggest problems went unaddressed. Gabriel’s “Worse is Better” essay reminds us that making a system do the Right Thing™ is rarely simpler.
But making the runtime go out of its way to store the exact type of an object you don’t have is damn weird. In theory a method could accept a nil receiver, but in practice they never seem to.
But making the runtime go out of its way to store the exact type of an object you don’t have is damn weird. In theory a method could accept a nil receiver, but in practice they never seem to.