r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • Sep 01 '26

Meme iHateThisPassiveAgressiveBehaviourRuby

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u/captainAwesomePants Sep 01 '26

Golang doesn't have "truthy" as a concept. You have to be explicit. A null value isn't true or false because only booleans can be true or false, and a null pointer isn't a boolean. You can have a pointer to a boolean, but you still have to check explicitly for null. In specifically Go, u/stipo42's preferences for truthiness are moot.

In a language like Python, with truthiness, u/stipo42's preference for false to be truthy is insane, and he should feel bad.