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Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by jasonhansel on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @07:39AM (#19980039)
I really wish Go had learned a lesson from Java: programmers will eventually want generics, and adding generics to a language that was not designed for them leads to new and unexpected obstacles.

The lack of generics makes Go uniquely unsuitable for functional programming, an unfortunate outcome when functional programming is the New Cool Thing.

Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by akarki15 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @11:42AM (#19982372)
> New Cool Thing See that's your issue. Go tries super hard to _not_ be that and evidently has succeeded.
Re:Go is Google's language, not ours by apta on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:05PM (#19982624)
The original view of the golang authors was that it was made to replace C++. It obviously failed at that, and ended up being used as a faster Python.