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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?

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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.

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