There is a gotcha in golang (go figure!) resulting from the
difference between a nil slice and an empty slice. While the length
of both are 0, the JSON encoder will interpret the nil slice as
'null' and the empty slice as '[]'. Other libraries (i.e. ActiveRecord)
will return an empty array when no values are found. I have found
that this translates into better client-side code, since you don't
have to protect against null arrays.
See 'http://danott.co/posts/json-marshalling-empty-slices-to-empty-arrays-in-go.html'
for more information.
