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by chrisdinn 1000 days ago
Curious to understand what you are suggesting here. What’s a better story for polymorphism than duck typing? What would (better?) null-safety look like in Go?
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I'm saying that we need an XYZ to Go what Kotlin is to Java. The I name some ways that Kotlin improved upon Java that Go would also benefit from.

> What’s a better story for polymorphism than duck typing?

Something that give compiletime guarantees and has not runtime overhead.

> What would (better?) null-safety look like in Go?

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/java-to-kotlin-nullability-guide...