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Re:Why Go Is Not Good (2014) by TillE on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:22AM (#10704565)
A huge variety of other languages have successfully implemented generics. The Go team seems to be looking for some mythical ideal solution with no tradeoffs, and will therefore never do it.
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Re:Why Go Is Not Good (2014) by omginternets on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:47AM (#10704804)
>A huge variety of other languages have successfully implemented generics

Completely irrelevant; the argument isn't "generics are hard [full stop]". The argument is "generics are hard" AND "we don't know Go's niche well enough to commit to any specific approach".

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Re:Why Go Is Not Good (2014) by mike_hearn on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @12:27PM (#10705113)
But how can they not know that, after so many years?
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Re:Why Go Is Not Good (2014) by omginternets on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @02:40PM (#10706162)
You'd have to ask them, but I suppose it takes years to carve out a niche.

What I can say is that I recently interviewed a Google engineer who was conducting a survey of Go's usage, so it seems they're at least studying the question.

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