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Re:Eight years of Go by theshrike79 on Friday November 10, 2017 @02:29PM (#15672279)
People want generics because they think every language should have generics.

What they don't know is the exact cases where the lack of generics causes a real-world problem for them. This is what the developers are requesting at the moment, in order to possibly bring generics to Go 2.

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Re:Eight years of Go by erik_seaberg on Friday November 10, 2017 @03:46PM (#15672871)
Every statically-typed language needs generics to allow a function to be used with more than one type. Otherwise you throw away most of the type info and end up with the same problems dynamically-typed languages have.
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