Go 1.16 Release Notes

Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by mseepgood on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:27PM (#26158382)

Yes, the proposal was accepted this week: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

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Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by _wldu on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:29PM (#26158405)

But is that really bad for Go? I'm not sure it is. Go1 will always be useful just as it is.

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Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by throwaway894345 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:26PM (#26159006)

One of the features of Go is that everyone writes code the same way, which means anyone can easily read anyone else's code; there's only one paradigm; idioms and conventions are strong across the community. This property exists precisely because Go isn't very expressive, but the generics proposal will make Go more expressive and in all likelihood the ecosystem will become more diverse accordingly. Whether this is a positive or negative depends on how much you value expressiveness versus standardization.

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Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by cpuguy83 on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:09PM (#26158841)

I don't think the op intended "storm" to be negative here. Just to say that there are loads of changes coming soon.

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Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by mseepgood on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @03:31PM (#26158427)

> But is that really bad for Go?

No, I don't think so.

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