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Re:Toward Go 2 by zemo on Thursday July 13, 2017 @08:18PM (#14766468)
> I'm not even a Go developer

> Using `interface{}` to temporarily escape the type system

tbh if you program Go correctly, you use interface{} pretty rarely.

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Re:Toward Go 2 by camus2 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @09:05PM (#14766680)
> tbh if you program Go correctly, you use interface{} pretty rarely.

It's a bit like saying "if you program C correctly, you use (void *) pretty rarely.". that's not the case, Go maintainers themselves keep on adding API with interface {} everywhere. Are you saying they are not programming Go correctly?

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