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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by chc on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:30PM (#11122439)
What is an alternate? I've never heard of that and Googling tells me nothing.
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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by itp on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @06:40PM (#11122498)
I'm guessing that means something more like "alternatives," but that's just a guess.
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Re:Go 1.6 is Released by bigdubs on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @07:22PM (#11122715)
s/alternates/substitutes/g

yeah, basically type coercion/checking and interfaces have replaced generics in some (not all) use cases

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