Opportunity

[Peter Alexander]

On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 15:50:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Lack of generics makes it very tenuous to do meaningful work on 
> algorithms and their associated data structures.

Why?


> To compound the matter, Go itself doesn't follow its own 
> preaching (thou shall shun generics and use interfaces 
> throughout) for its own essential data structures (arrays, 
> associative arrays, and channels) - all of which are generic in 
> ways unattainable to client code.

Every language has primitives that have special privileges. I 
don't think this can be used as an argument against Go.


> You can only go this far by claiming two data structures are 
> enough and algorithms based on map/reduce are unneeded because 
> there are loops.

Two *primitive* data structures. There's nothing stopping you 
from creating your own data structures - they just won't be 
generic like the built in ones.