Re:Go 2, here we come
by delhanty on Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:39PM
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>Generics in c++, c#, scala, java
They're not all the same though are they.
C++/CLI had both compile-time generics (templates) from C++, and run-time generics from the CLR. And they could be complementary at times.
For compile-time generics, Dlang are a lot more sane that C++, having had the benefit of coming later, and dumping C compatability.
Similarly, CLR (C#, ...) generics had the benefit of being designed having seen Java first, so IIRC they're baked into the CLR. CKR generics were derived from work done at MS Research Cambridge, and I seem to remember Don Syme (F# creator) being rather proud of them. Disclosure: I was contracting at MSR Cambridge back in 2007.
Anyway, the golang designers will be aware of these implementations, so hopefully they'll come up with a nice design.
They're not all the same though are they.
C++/CLI had both compile-time generics (templates) from C++, and run-time generics from the CLR. And they could be complementary at times.
For compile-time generics, Dlang are a lot more sane that C++, having had the benefit of coming later, and dumping C compatability.
Similarly, CLR (C#, ...) generics had the benefit of being designed having seen Java first, so IIRC they're baked into the CLR. CKR generics were derived from work done at MS Research Cambridge, and I seem to remember Don Syme (F# creator) being rather proud of them. Disclosure: I was contracting at MSR Cambridge back in 2007.
Anyway, the golang designers will be aware of these implementations, so hopefully they'll come up with a nice design.