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Re:Go generics proposal moves to “likely accept” by tptacek on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:34PM (#26019436)
Presumably anything you've used codegen to solve; for instance, it'll probably make SQL libraries a lot nicer to use.
Re:Go generics proposal moves to “likely accept” by paedubucher on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @04:37PM (#26019490)
Code generation requires an additional build step. One thing I like about Go is that it feels like a scripting language (go run).

I guess writing a numeric library, like Python's NumPy, is a lot more convenient using generics. But I've never tried...