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So? what's the harm? At least I'll see targeted ads; ads that I would actually care about and not random ads. Yeah, these big tech companies track us. It's old now. When the product is free, you are the product. Same old, same old. Tell me something new.

I love my iPhone SE 3rd gen. Perfect form factor. Neither too big nor too small to be able to do useful things on it. My hands and arms hurt using large phones. I am so used to using one hand to operate phones. My previous was iPhone SE 1st gen. Why do people need such a large phone in day to day life usage? Carry an iPad/tablet if you really need one.

All people here care about is hating Meta. Just look at the top voted comment. No one cares about the merits of the model, etc. HN has become nothing but an echo chamber.

I use Brave browser and even that didn’t help.

This. One should never pick a language that regresses in terms of features from the get go.

It's an utter waste of time for developers, business, everyone. Millions of lines of Go code have been written without generics. Libraries have been written. Support, maintenance, cost, etc. This is why one shouldn't pick languages that regress in features from the get go. Now developers will waste time migrating the code to stdlib. This is not solving problems. This is doing tech for the sake of doing tech. Wasting everyone's time. Remember that code is not the deliverable.

Yes, just used the word for emphasis :-)

Nothing is wrong. What was wrong before when they vehemently argued against adding it? Is that design principle/core value lost now?

First they said they won't add generics. They violently defended that decision. Developers bent over backwards to make it work without generics. Some even wrote long blog posts defending Rob Pike's decision. Some wrote posts arguing against it. Now the Golang team adds them. Why waste so much developer time? It's not a few months. It's several years. This industry is seriously a clown show tbh.

They even downvote people who suggest C++ :-). Doing this in C is such a colossal waste of time and energy, not to mention the bugs it'll introduce. Sigh!

I would rather focus on solving the main problem than reinvent the wheel. Just use C++ if perf is critical which gives you all these things for free. In this day and age the reasons for using C as your main language should be almost zero.