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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by willsmith72 on Monday November 27, 2023 @12:38PM (#38435325)
> a dozen different implementations of functions like "minimum" or "filter"

this is too real and my number 1 gripe with go

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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by patmorgan23 on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:24PM (#38436932)
And it's funny because go has a whole http server in the standard lib, but not minimum?
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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by kevincox on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:31PM (#38437027)
It couldn't have a minimum before generics. The function was not expressible in the general case. So they either would have had to add `minByte`, `minInt`, `minStr`, ... or make it a builtin generic. And every builtin is an admission that the language was not powerful enough, so those are kept to a minimum.
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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by yobert on Monday November 27, 2023 @03:01PM (#38437411)
I know it sounds funny, but I have used the built in "net/http" in probably fifty projects now, and not a single one of them needed a min/max function.
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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by porjo on Monday November 27, 2023 @02:33PM (#38437058)
There is 'min': https://go.dev/ref/spec#Min_and_max
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Re:Python Is Easy. Go Is Simple. Simple != Easy by richbell on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:20PM (#38439248)
Since v1.21, which wasn't released that long ago.
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