[OT] Go officially won't get generics

[Bienlein via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:54:42 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> So the videos of the Gophercon 2014 are being made available.
>
> Rob Pike did the keynote. At the expected question about 
> generics,
> his answer was "There are no plans for generics. I said we're 
> going to leave the language; we're done.".
>
> Discussion ongoing on HN,
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7708904
>
> --
> Paulo


When Rob Pike was asked at the end of his keynote speech whether 
Go will support generics one day the majority of the audience was 
immediately laughing. If I were into Go this would make me think.

I don't think parameterized types are necessary for a typed 
language to be "good". But in Go it would be helpful to allow 
workarounds for modelling problems. As I like the way concurrency 
is done in Go I tried several times to find programming solutions 
that can manage without violating visibility rules or having 
duplicate variables or some other compromise. But there was 
simply no way.