Half a million lines of Go

Re:Half a million lines of Go by tored on Monday May 17, 2021 @04:36AM (#27181258)

> Go’s type system/compiler doesn't lend you much in the way of helping ensure code correctness

Do you have any examples? Not a golang programmer myself.

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Re:Half a million lines of Go by eternalban on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:51AM (#27182069)

Go's weak type system encourages use of dynamic type ops (such as casting interface{}, etc) and obviously the compiler is out of the loop at compile time so it can't help.

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Re:Half a million lines of Go by theshrike79 on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:01AM (#27182122)

I've written my fair share of Go over the years and I've cast to interface{} exactly zero times.

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Re:Half a million lines of Go by simiones on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:49AM (#27182412)

Explicitly, I believe you, but I'd bet you've often implicitly cast to interface{} (even some very legitimate cases like json.Marshal() are still technically casts to interface{}).

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