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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by bin_bash on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:24AM (#31407476)
It blows my mind why Go didn’t have generics at launch. I suppose they just didn’t want people to be able to have abstractions like this at all?
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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by pjmlp on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:33AM (#31407537)
> In retrospect, we were biased too much by experience with C++ without concepts and Java generics. We would have been well-served to spend more time with CLU and C++ concepts earlier.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

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Re:Shopify invests in research for Ruby at scale by bin_bash on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @05:03AM (#31407728)
oh wow thanks for this. I haven't been actively using Go since around the time this was written so I've missed it
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