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Re:Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from P... by calcifer on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:35PM (#15666358)
> Reified Generics

It's implemented with some bytecode hackery and hence limited to inlined functions [0], which makes it significantly less useful.

Funny how a misguided design decision from the Java 1.5 days (running generic 1.6 code with a 1.5 jre) still haunts us today...

[0] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/inline-functions.html#...

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Re:Learning Go by porting a medium-sized web back end from P... by _Codemonkeyism on Friday November 10, 2017 @03:05AM (#15668617)
See "Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0&t=3399s
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