On: NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go

[bb88]

And now they're stuck, since they doubled down on not making any language changes for the 2.0 release.

They made the language easier and quicker to write a compiler, but harder to write programs in, and it doesn't look like that will change in Go 2.0.

[pjmlp → bb88]

At least many CNCF projects are now adopting Rust, Java, C# and even to a lesser extent C++.

[bb88 → pjmlp]

There's nothing better than a panic in production caused by a third party library.

[pjmlp → bb88]

This whole thread is about the money Über has spent to work around panics in Go.