Re:3.5 Years, 500k Lines of Go
by coldtea on Friday March 24, 2017 @11:59AM
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>Ask a dynamic language enthusiast about that. Dynamic languages don't have "proper generics" but what they do have is all the generic use cases covered... so... which is more important, having a particular feature, or being able to do all the things that the feature can do?
Well, the "things that the feature can do" in a dynamic language you can do in Go with interface{}.
It's the one thing you can't do (in Go or a dynamic language) that Generics are all about: type-safe generic code.
Well, the "things that the feature can do" in a dynamic language you can do in Go with interface{}.
It's the one thing you can't do (in Go or a dynamic language) that Generics are all about: type-safe generic code.
So, you'd made the parents case for them...