One year of Go

Seth Hoenig seth.a.hoenig at gmail.com
Fri Nov 12 07:59:19 PST 2010


>
> Can you please explain when have you missed them? Because after writing
> quite a bit of Go code, and talking with other people that has written even
> more Go code, almost nobody has found this to be an issue.
>


This is such a crap argument, I don't even know how to counter. Perhaps
instead of trolling the D mailing list (and reddit and HN), you should put
that effort into fixing your [what I and many "other people" believe to be
an] inherently broken pet language.





On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Pillsy <pillsbury at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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