Hacker News with Generative AI: Null Values

Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value (utoronto.ca)
One of the classical big reason to want union types in Go is so that one can implement the general pattern of an option type, in order to force people to deal explicitly with null values.
Nulls: Revisiting null representation in modern columnar formats (dl.acm.org)
Nulls are common in real-world data sets, yet recent research on columnar formats and encodings rarely address Null representations.