Go 1.24's `omitzero` is another of the best additions to the ecosystem in years

[jamietanna]

https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/02/12/go-omitzero-124/

[jbreckmckye]

I've got a question for the Go people, it's not intended to be adversarial:

What exactly does Go get out of its zero values system? What does the language get from having this ambiguity built in to every type?

[FreezerburnV → jbreckmckye]

No uninitialized values, same as Java. You don’t get junk values that are whatever were in that memory previously. It’s actually a lack of ambiguity in that an int will always be 0 when initialized, not like 19692847376 sometimes.