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Re:Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go by fleshweasel on Saturday December 05, 2015 @04:26PM (#10683330)
It seems like a lot of dynamically typed language programmers are catching on to Go and it's the best thing they've ever known. Generics are just not that hard. They are not the difference between a comprehensible codebase and an incomprehensible one. The only reason they're not in the language along with higher-order list manipulation among other things is because of the idiosyncrasies of Go's creator.
Re:Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go by jerf on Monday December 07, 2015 @01:56PM (#10691708)
Bear in mind that while my job is in dynamically-typed languages, I'm fluent in Haskell, and have done non-trivial work in it. Go wouldn't be as large an upgrade for me if Haskell hadn't taught me so thoroughly what static type systems can do. I'm not just "a dynamically-typed programmer who just discovered Go and thinks its the best thing since sliced bread" or something.
Re:Avoiding Reflection (And Such) in Go by codygman on Monday December 07, 2015 @04:58PM (#10693048)
I'm very thankful for your work in figuring out how to make more static guarantees in Go code.