D vs Go in real life

Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.olsh at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 10:45:25 PST 2013


06-Nov-2013 19:34, Jesse Phillips пишет:
> On Wednesday, 6 November 2013 at 07:02:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> Yikes. Sorting time in D is trivial. It would never occur to me that
>> that would be hard.
>
> I know, it's something I use. Something one probably expects to Just
> Work. I thought for sure Go would have provided the needed functions,
> but no they didn't.
>
> While I was trying to find additional information I came across this
> blog[1] which had such a fitting quote, "The sort package in Go is
> pretty neat." Directly followed by "there are some specific functions
> for sort some of the basic types."

I swear when I glanced at [1] I thought it was sarcasm. Reading it again 
- I see it wasn't :)

>
> When trying to write a blog which centers around the sort packaging
> being *the* example of why Go's lack of generics sucks, reading that the
> package is "neat" was not something I expected.
>
> 1. http://blog.jessta.id.au/2012/06/gos-sort-package.html


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