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Re:After a year of using Node.js in production by majewsky on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @04:18AM (#11618823)
Most serious statically-typed languages have some sort of "anything" type where you can check the actual value type at runtime using some sort of reflection. For example, the direct Golang equivalent of a Javascript object is a map[string]interface{}.
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Re:After a year of using Node.js in production by spion on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:41PM (#11624465)
I'm not looking for an `any` type, but for structural types: Go interfaces are already a basic form of that, although a bit too basic.

And I hate to say it, but Go doesn't qualify as a serious statically typed language. No language without generics does.

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