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.

#grumble #rant

@sudonem saves memory, sometimes you modifying the copy add bugs. Think about a database connection...