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I am constantly criticising the C# community for not looking at other languages enough, but in this case it cuts both ways: C# has every feature mentioned here. Including a pretty good model for nullable.

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I don't think having nullables can be called a feature as such. It adds complexity to your code and it directly goes against Go's philosophy of explicit error handling and simple types. Of course it's completely opinion based but I think having people handle errors directly instead of dealing with them through exceptions and checks makes for much more predictable code. I'm also not sure I really see the difference that GP does. I think that in a lot of code you're going to do a lot of null checks anyway, maybe even more than how often you'll check if your pointers are nil, but at least with Go you're not risking missing one.

Maybe the Go engineers didn't think about nullables, but I think there is a good chance they simply decided against them for various reasons.

We could argue about the Go philosophy till the cows come home, but maybe it would be better to just consider that not having a nullable int makes modelling database tables painful.

> C# has every feature

Yes it does. I just don’t understand why does everyone want every language to be the same language? If you want all the sugar then C#, Java, latest C++ all are perfectly mature and usable and fit that niche

Because languages are more then just syntax, so ofcourse You'd rather have your favorite language copy some syntax you like, then be forced to switch entire stack to another language just to be able to use that syntax

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