Comment by stingraycharles
15 hours ago
my post was never intended as Go bashing, I use Go a lot and appreciate its simplicity.
am I tearing something down in my comment?
15 hours ago
my post was never intended as Go bashing, I use Go a lot and appreciate its simplicity.
am I tearing something down in my comment?
HN threads on Go are boring because they always get derailed by someone grousing about the fact that it took a long time to add generics. The history of this has been gone over a thousand times already and it’s really quite undramatic. The Go team couldn’t figure out a good design for generics for a long time. Eventually, they got some help from Phil Wadler and other type system experts and figured it out. The end. Anyone who feels that the Go team should have done it faster owes us at the very least their own design together with a soundness proof for a plausible fragment of Go. Conspicuously, no-one provided such a thing before the Go team did.
The details of Go generics, their advantages and disadvantages compared to other languages, etc., are absolutely interesting to discuss. But there is nothing hiding behind the “official” story.