Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'

Re:Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any' by mpalmer on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:05PM (#29559385)

Sounds like you think this is some kind of "Web 2.0" situation, but that was just a marketing term.

Languages are software; they are dependencies of other software (the only unavoidable dependency!) and as such should absolutely be versioned.

Versioning isn't for marketing or providing easy ways for users to remember when features were released. It's a tool for change management. Exciting features often come with breaking changes, but not vice versa.

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Re:Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any' by wyattpeak on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @06:50PM (#29559830)

versioning != semantic versioning

Semantic versioning is an approach to versioning. It's an approach which, as GP stated, was designed specifically to help with dependency updating.

GP isn't proposing that languages shouldn't be versioned, they're saying that semantic versioning is the wrong approach to versioning for a language.

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Re:Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any' by mpalmer on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:06PM (#29561967)

Well I did inadvertently leave out the word semantic but it's certainly what I was describing.

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