Go 2017 Survey Results

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 15:30:44 UTC, JN wrote:
> 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.

Generic programming just means that you leave out the 
specification for some types in the code for later.

C++-style templates like D has is one solution to generic 
programming.  When some people write «generics» they probably 
think of Java and something that is like that...