alt Hacker News> You don’t get runtime errors for marshalling pointers to JSON
https://pkg.go.dev/encoding/json/v2#Marshal says otherwise:
> The Go map key must encode as a JSON string, otherwise this results in a SemanticError
> All other Go types (e.g., complex numbers, channels, and functions) have no default representation and result in a SemanticError.
v1 has the same constraints.
> A Go pointer is encoded as a JSON null if nil, otherwise it is the recursively JSON-encoded representation of the underlying value.
The doc you linked to literally proves me right.