Also known as contract programming vs. defensive programming. This argument is very old, is not specific to golang, and I have found myself on both sides at different points in my carreer.

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Sharlin 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Fortunately we have type systems to encode many contracts at compile time, including stuff like optionality. Certainly no modern language would still repeat Hoare’s "billion dollar mistake"? Right? …Oh.

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tialaramex 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It's so bad that here we are in the 21st century and there are even still people who insist it wasn't a mistake e.g.: https://www.gingerbill.org/article/2026/01/02/was-it-really-...

	▲	bvrmn 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's quite a delusional take from Bill. Wow. Using non-nullable (a sane language default) pointers in Zig is liberating experience. And it's still as low level as in C but instead of ship-and-pray you could state your intention with a type system.