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Re:Things Go needs more than generics by chrisseaton on Monday October 04, 2021 @07:35AM (#28745401)
> I would expect them to know of "billion dollar mistake[1]" that is null. But sadly they had not.

What makes you think that they didn’t know about it, rather than that they did know but decided they weren’t interested in the trade offs for this particular new language.

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Re:Things Go needs more than generics by cies on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:55AM (#28746052)
I misworded what I thought. I think they knew but have no clue why they went ahead with the mistake non the less.
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