Go

Three methods for golang to handle values of type date for DB columns that allow null. Allow null with a pointer. sql.NullTime requires a conditional branch via the Valid field to determine null. []When using uint8, convert byte slice -> string -> time.Time object.

In Go language, functions begin with the func keyword and require argument and return types (static typing). Type names are written "behind" variable names; Go structures differ from classes in that methods are defined outside of the structure definition, and structures and methods are associated via "receivers".