"14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike

Re:"14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike by yangl1996 on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:24PM (#39527555)

Your last sentence seems fishy to me. Are you suggesting that support for C++ like operator overloading is a necessary condition for, say, autodiff? I thought Go is a Turing complete language.

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Re:"14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike by ogogmad on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:44PM (#39527846)

Operator overloading is about syntax and type safety. Brainfuck is Turing complete.

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Re:"14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike by campbel on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @01:52PM (#39527979)

I agree it is about syntax. But how is it about type safety?

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Re:"14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike by ogogmad on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @04:42PM (#39530409)

You might want the same piece of code to work correctly under different numerical types. Answer: Op overloading + generics.

E.g. Dual numbers for autodiff; 2x2 matrices of quaternions for texture mapping; matrices of differing floating point types for machine learning. Why should I implement the same matrix operations a million times over?

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