Toward Go 2 - Hackdot

Re:Toward Go 2 by fixermark on Thursday July 13, 2017 @03:15PM (#14764269)

The point of Go 2.0, IIUC, is that it throws away backwards-compatibility guarantees, so if they want to do something in Go 2.0 that breaks correct go1 code to support generics, that's on the table. So backwards-compatibility nastiness is not guaranteed.

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Re:Toward Go 2 by scribu on Thursday July 13, 2017 @04:18PM (#14764793)

Not quite. The article mentions that Go 1 code needs to be able to coexist with Go 2 in the same codebase.

So, at runtime, Go 1 code needs to be able to work with Go 2 types. That will impose some restrictions, I imagine.

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Re:Toward Go 2 by vram22 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:02PM (#14765203)

>The article mentions that Go 1 code needs to be able to coexist with Go 2 in the same codebase.

Interesting. Are there any other languages where that is allowed? I'm assuming that by "codebase" you mean all the code that gets compiled into one program or library (for compiled languages), or is part of one program or library (for interpreted languages). And I don't mean the case where only a common subset of Lang X v1 features and Lang X v2 features are used in the same codebase (because in that case, there is no issue). That latter case is possible, for example, in Python, and probably some many languages too. In fact by the definition of the case, it should be possible in all languages.

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Re:Toward Go 2 by cyphar on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:40PM (#14765507)

I would just read the article. Basically, the restriction they want to impose is to make sure that you can import v2 code into a v1 codebase and vice-versa with a v2 compiler. So that means any syntax breakage would need to be versioned or otherwise inferred, I guess.

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Re:Toward Go 2 by fanf2 on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:17PM (#14771424)

>>>>The article mentions that Go 1 code needs to be able to coexist with Go 2 in the same codebase.<<<<

>>Interesting. Are there any other languages where that is allowed?<<

C / C++

Perl 5/6

The various language feature pragmas in Haskell.

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Re:Toward Go 2 by vram22 on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:39PM (#14772184)

Interesting, didn't know this about C/C++, though I may have guessed it about Perl.

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Re:Toward Go 2 by scribu on Thursday July 13, 2017 @05:48PM (#14765573)

> I'm assuming that by "codebase" you mean all the code that gets compiled into one program or library

Correct.

> Are there any other languages where that is allowed?

One would be Racket, a Lisp which allows you to pick a syntax flavour using the #lang directive: https://docs.racket-lang.org/guide/Module_Syntax.html#%28par...

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