> "You can't ship software in a language without generics!"
Isn't this is a strawman? Most arguments in favor of generics in this thread and elsewhere are well informed and people just want safer code...
As you said, you can already have generics using unsafe solutions. Some built-in types have generics. Most people just want this type safety.
interface{} does feel like a temporary and clunky solution for people used to generics.
> And lastly, one thing that you can't really appreciate without trying Go--the lack of generics/expressiveness and general simplicity of the language largely means everyone writes the same boring, predictable code, which means you can pretty much pick up any project on GitHub or your own code from years ago and understand it almost immediately.
I don't get this argument. Why are generics more complicated than other features? Has this hypothesis been tested?
I personally find that using generics is way easier and faster than interface{}, Reflection or code generation. Also simpler and less error-prone than features from other languages like inheritance, operator overloading and unbounded coroutines.
Isn't this is a strawman? Most arguments in favor of generics in this thread and elsewhere are well informed and people just want safer code...
As you said, you can already have generics using unsafe solutions. Some built-in types have generics. Most people just want this type safety.
interface{} does feel like a temporary and clunky solution for people used to generics.
> And lastly, one thing that you can't really appreciate without trying Go--the lack of generics/expressiveness and general simplicity of the language largely means everyone writes the same boring, predictable code, which means you can pretty much pick up any project on GitHub or your own code from years ago and understand it almost immediately.
I don't get this argument. Why are generics more complicated than other features? Has this hypothesis been tested?
I personally find that using generics is way easier and faster than interface{}, Reflection or code generation. Also simpler and less error-prone than features from other languages like inheritance, operator overloading and unbounded coroutines.