Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
by joshuamorton on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:50AM
(#31206712)
Elaborating on 3/4: the domain experts don't need to be compiler experts too.
There are always going to be more numeric-like types (int, float, complex, bigint, rational, symbolic-comp types etc.). Numeric vectors that act like numbers are useful (see: numpy), and trying to stick those all into the language is far harder than allowing extensibility.
There are always going to be more numeric-like types (int, float, complex, bigint, rational, symbolic-comp types etc.). Numeric vectors that act like numbers are useful (see: numpy), and trying to stick those all into the language is far harder than allowing extensibility.