Are We There Yet: The Go Generics Debate

Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:50:25 -0500

At GopherCon a couple weeks ago, Russ Cox gave a talk titled The Future of Go, in which he discussed what the Go community might want to change about the language—particularly for the so-called Go 2.0 milestone—and the process for realizing those changes. Part of that process is identifying real-world use cases through experience reports, which turn an abstract problem into a concrete one and help the core team to understand its significance. Also mentioned in the talk, of course, were generics. Over the weekend, Dave Cheney posted Should Go 2.0 support generics? Allow me to add to the noise.

Go Is Unapologetically Flawed, Here’s Why We Use It

Wed, 20 May 2015 11:46:16 -0500

Go is decidedly polarizing. While many are touting their transition to Go, it has become equally fashionable to criticize and mock the language. As Bjarne Stroustrup so eloquently put it, “There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.” This adage couldn’t be more true. I apologize in advance for what appears to be just another in a long line of diatribes. I’m not really sorry, though.

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Are We There Yet: The Go Generics Debate

Go Is Unapologetically Flawed, Here’s Why We Use It