Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by ilyt on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:19PM (#36774952)

Lack of sum types and thus impossibility of just having Result<T,E>-like type for returning errors is bigger one for me, I didn't get bitten by nulls all that much in Go

Although I guess that feeds into eachother, sum types would eliminate any need for null types in the first place.

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Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by packetlost on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:33PM (#36775227)

I would have taken sum types over generics, personally. It kinda sucks because you can't create something like Rust's `?` operator without them or making serious kludgy compromises.

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Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by whimsicalism on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:23PM (#36775021)

Yes, sum types would solve the problem - you are both identifying the same issue imo

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