One year of Go

[Pillsy]

jfd wrote:

> == Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article

> >> eaturbrainz
> >> Back in the day I was writing a kernel, and having to
> >> rewrite queues for every single type of thing I wanted
> >> to queue, or use type-casts to enforce strong typing
> >> of queue elements at runtime, was annoying as fuck.
> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/e49ta/go_one_year_ago_today/

> eaturbrainz's problem is what convinced me of the true value of
> generics. 

At this point I'm mystified as to why language designers just keep on making this same mistake by leaving support for generic programming out of their statically typed languages. Java and C# had to graft generics onto their languages after the fact; why ignore that?

Cheers,
Pillsy