I’m not a programmer. Not really.
Even being a neophyte that doesn’t know what they don’t know, this cannot be a very controversial view:
Pointers in #golang seem kind of stupid.
Hear me out.
By definition, a variable is… variable so having to use a pointer to actually modify the value of a variable seems needlessly complex.
@sudonem Not controversial, but weird because pointers in C languages (and others too) and others are used only to refer to a value so you don't, for example, create a new instance of the variable when passing it to a function, even vb which is mostly pointer less uses byref (use a pointer) and byval (passed value) when sending off parameters to a function.
To change the actual value in most languages you change the actual value, totally opposite of what golang seems to do.
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