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Re:Forbes: What is the most valuable programming language to... by coldtea on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @11:18PM (#8040390)
>That's probably more a matter of taste. Go has a reflect package which allows the programmer to determine type at runtime, making generics unnecessary.

That's not "making generics unnecessary". That's "using an ugly hack that throws typesafety away instead of a proper solution".

And it's more familiar than generics, that's what Java had before they understood that they had to have generics.

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Re:Forbes: What is the most valuable programming language to... by firebrand39 on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @06:46AM (#8041423)
Well, you are right it reminded me of method overloading. Otherwise I think time will tell. In the end generics are just types with parameters, for creating typed permutations _at_compile_time_ of functions/maps etc.. And as you said, java worked quite a while without them.
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