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Re:Toward Go 2 by xienze on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:05PM (#14763637)
> All of those should be generic, but aren't.

They aren't because the prevailing attitude is "what do you need generics for? Just do a cast!"

The issue is the Go developers are unwilling to consider generics until someone can come up with a problem that absolutely, positively cannot be solved without generics. And of course there isn't one.

Re:Toward Go 2 by bpicolo on Thursday July 13, 2017 @02:21PM (#14763798)
I mean, having to cast after every single call to heap is a problem.

Go is turing complete already, so all problems are already able to be solved. :)