One year of Go

[Pillsy]

uriel_follower wrote:

> Pillsy Wrote:
[...]
> > 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?

> Can you please explain when have you missed them?

I haven't even bothered trying Go because lacking support for generics is so obviously the Wrong Thing[tm]. 
[...]
> Specially now the new append() builtin has taken care of most of
> the remaining cases where generics might have been marginally 
> useful.

Wait, why did they need to introduce a *whole new builtin*? Why should this have to be builtin *at all*?
[...]
> Because nobody ever reused any code in languages without 
> generics!

Re-using code in statically typed languages is harder if they don't have generics. 

And after seeing people say, "Oh, yeah, you really don't need generics in our language!" a few times only to sheepishly bolt them on a few years later doesn't inspire much confidence this time around. 

Cheers,
Pillsy