I could say the same about many of Go's critics, but I don't because that wouldn't be constructive. Rather than taking undue offense at my comment, why not articulate a counterexample to prove that there are valid reasons why a person (rather than a use case) might require generics?
> If you wanted to be persuasive or helpful, you could try explaining what the other approaches to work around lacking generics might be, rather than just insulting people for being unable to figure out on their own how to avoid copy/paste spamming their codebase.
Because these are already well-understood and have been debated to death. Instead of .map().filter().flat_map().reduce() you use a simple for loop. Instead of `LinkedList<ItemType>` you use `type List struct { Item ItemType; Next List }`. The thing that we generally aren't* agreed on is whether those extra characters are actually the end of the world versus the benefits associated with simpler, more concrete, more standard code.
Anyway, I wasn't "insulting" anyone, I was describing Go critics' objections in roughly their own terms (i.e., in so many conversations I've had with Go critics esp over generics, the conversation eventually terminates at some variation of "Go forces me to think about programming differently than I'm used to").
All three of these things are subjective.
> in so many conversations I've had with Go critics esp over generics, the conversation eventually terminates at some variation of "Go forces me to think about programming differently than I'm used to"
At some sufficiently large number of people, you need to acknowledge that how they think isn't wrong, the language is.
This justifies anything popular, including things that are now universally seen as bad, but once were popular.
I'm not even sure why I'm having to explain this. It's is a pretty obvious thing.
Not really. They aren’t formally defined, but there’s pretty wide consensus even among Go detractors about these qualities.
> At some sufficiently large number of people, you need to acknowledge that how they think isn't wrong, the language is.
Not when there are plenty of people willing to think differently and reap the benefits.
[citation needed]
> there are plenty of people willing to think differently and reap the benefits
"Reap the benefits" is, again, subjective. It's something you like, not something objectively beneficial or worth the trade-offs in all, most, or even necessarily many projects.
This is precisely the unduly arrogant attitude amongst Gophers that others have already mentioned several times in this thread.
> "Reap the benefits" is, again, subjective. It's something you like, not something objectively beneficial or worth the trade-offs in all, most, or even necessarily many projects.
Of course, productivity isn’t for everyone. Sometimes for personal projects I’ll opt for things that exercise my creativity and cleverness over the purely productive or pragmatic.
> This is precisely the unduly arrogant attitude amongst Gophers that others have already mentioned several times in this thread.
Hah! This made me laugh. Yes, I disagree with you therefore I must be arrogant. (:
Restated: You aren't arrogant because you disagree with me. You're arrogant because the things you say and the way you say them are arrogant.
If you wanted to be persuasive or helpful, you could try explaining what the other approaches to work around lacking generics might be, rather than just insulting people for being unable to figure out on their own how to avoid copy/paste spamming their codebase.