One year of Go

[Boris Wang]

Just about generic, I think, C no generic, so Go no generic, it's a good
enough reason.



2010/11/12 Pillsy <pillsbury at gmail.com>

> 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
>
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