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C at least has const ptr. In go I've seen pointers mutated 7 levels down the callstack. And of course, the rest of the sphagetti depended on those side effects.

C is so limited that you would try to avoid mutation and even complex datastructures.

Go is "powerful" enough to let you shoot yourself much harder.

Go with `const` and NonNull<ptr> (call it a reference if you need) would be a much nicer language