One year of Go

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:26:53 -0500, div0 <div0 at sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On 12/11/2010 21:42, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "uriel_follower"<wasteyourtime at reddit.com>  wrote in message
>>
>> People who find generics worthwhile *don't use Go*. So of course the
>> remaining Go users aren't going to miss them.
>>
>>> Because nobody ever reused any code in languages without generics!
>>
>> Sure they did. But they re-use a hell of a lot more *with* generics.  
>> (Or at
>> least generics that aren't as pointlessly gimped as the C# generics.)
>
> Yeah, I've been forced to do a lot of C# for web apps recently and  
> before that experience, I'd have said that I don't do much template code  
> and that using a language without them won't be a big deal.
>
> However even doing a relatively small web app, in C# made me really miss  
> being able to knock out some quick template code to sort out the  
> repetitive bits. C#s version of generics is laughably crap.
>
> You might not use templates every day, but when you need/want them  
> absolutely nothing else comes close.


I have to agree, the one time I tried to use generics in C# I was  
frustrated to no end (what I mean by use is write my own parameterized  
types with them).  Generics are really only good for containers.  Even if  
Go did add Generics, I think they are still missing the boat.

-Steve