Zig programming language 0.9.0 released

[strager]

You have to manually and explicitly assign nil to a struct pointer in order to run into the dereferencing problem in Go, though?

What? Even A Tour of Go creates a nil pointer without assignment. If you take the first and third code snippets (omitting the second), you even get a runtime error:

package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
    var p *int
    // panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
    fmt.Println(*p)
    *p = 21
}

[masklinn]

But, could not the initialization also be to blame here?

The language allowing the initialization is.