Go 2017 Survey Results

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On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 15:01:45 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> It's also something that they've kept out of the language by 
> design. I don't disagree with that decision either. If the 
> selling points are fast compilation and code that is simple to 
> write and read without much knowledge of the language, it's 
> hard to see how generics fit in. Look at D. Templates slow 
> compilation and having a standard library that emphasizes 
> generic code makes it much harder to learn.

I'm no expert on programming language design, but I think there 
is a difference between templates and generics. At the basic 
level they are used for similar things - specializing container 
types, etc. But templates usually allow much more, so they end up 
being layers of layers of compile time code, e.g. D and Boost, 
which while nifty has it's compilation time cost.