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Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes by coldtea on Thursday February 16, 2017 @04:57PM (#13663889)
Considering that C#, Java and C++ (which have those features) have 10x or more users than Go, that sounds like a good risk to take.
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Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes by majewsky on Thursday February 16, 2017 @05:27PM (#13664163)
That's the same fallacy as the Twitter board trying to turn Twitter into Facebook. Sure, if Twitter were Facebook, it would have more users, but no-one needs a second Facebook.
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Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes by coldtea on Friday February 17, 2017 @03:10AM (#13666732)
That would be the same fallacy is there was only one other such language I could mention.

But between C#, Java, C++ and tons of others, it seems people do need "second" and "third" such languages...

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Re:Go 1.8 Release Notes by gribbly on Friday February 17, 2017 @05:41AM (#13667328)
Oh come on, those languages have been around for 20-30 years, Go has been around for 7 years and haven't seen anywhere near the push from Google that C# and Java had from Microsoft and Sun.

And it's not as if generics is off the table, personally I think they will arrive eventually, here's what Go lead Russ Cox said in January this year:

https://research.swtch.com/go2017#generics

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