Re:Go 2 Draft Designs
by pjmlp on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @04:30PM
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C has basic support for generics since 2011.
Objective-C merges C's type system with the dynamism of Smalltalk. Generics are only meant as a mechanism to ease interop with Swift.
Dynamic languages naturally don't require generics due to their semantics.
The team always handwaved the remarks of many of us as they now themselves recognise.
"In retrospect, we were biased too much by experience with C++ without concepts and Java generics. We would have been well-served to spend more time with CLU and C++ concepts earlier."
Objective-C merges C's type system with the dynamism of Smalltalk. Generics are only meant as a mechanism to ease interop with Swift.
Dynamic languages naturally don't require generics due to their semantics.
The team always handwaved the remarks of many of us as they now themselves recognise.
"In retrospect, we were biased too much by experience with C++ without concepts and Java generics. We would have been well-served to spend more time with CLU and C++ concepts earlier."