Re:Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]
by littlestymaar on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:05AM
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(This was a reference to the Go language, which after a decade saying “generics aren't needed” and even “the lack of generics is a feature”, are eventually shoehorning them in the language in their Go2 campaign.)
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Re:Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]
by nulltype on Monday August 31, 2020 @02:49AM
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I think they've been saying "We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it." since 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130410000959/https://golang.or...
Re:Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley [video]
by wtetzner on Friday September 04, 2020 @12:00PM
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That's what they've been saying, but I don't buy it.
I mean, the workarounds are horrible code generation tools and reflection. How were those ever not considered to be more complex than generics?