Re:Will Go be the new go-to programming language?
by emu on Thursday September 13, 2012 @10:59AM
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I have to agree that the lack of generics is one of the biggest holes in Go.
Common container data structures are one example. You can't write, say, a generic binary search tree in Go, unless you wrap all your data in an interface. While possible, this means you have to downcast all over the place.
The built-in map, while useful, is limited in how far it goes.
Maybe I'm just spoiled by the STL and the Java collections libraries.
Common container data structures are one example. You can't write, say, a generic binary search tree in Go, unless you wrap all your data in an interface. While possible, this means you have to downcast all over the place.
The built-in map, while useful, is limited in how far it goes.
Maybe I'm just spoiled by the STL and the Java collections libraries.