Go Beyond Nil: The Power of Options for Robust Code

Aditya Joshi
Level Up Coding
Published in
4 min readMay 3, 2024

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Have you ever dealt with a long list of parameters when initializing a struct or a function in Go? It can be cumbersome, especially when you only need to set a few while leaving the rest with default values.

Let’s also talk about dealing with those pesky nil values in Go. You know, the ones that cause panic and make your code a debugging nightmare. 🤪 Well, fret no more! The…

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