alt Hacker NewsIt’s still annoying ~20 years after Java did the same mistake of not including generics, which was already clear to many people with C++ experience back then.
It’s still annoying ~20 years after Java did the same mistake of not including generics, which was already clear to many people with C++ experience back then.
...and Java didn't even have basic enums or sum types from the beginning. But it had null.
They added enums, they added sealed classes. They're trying to get rid of null (apparently it's really hard). The problem is that in 2012, when go 1.0 was released, this should have been obvious to everyone.
Here's a famous discussion from 2009, three years before the 1.0 release (tldr: facepalm)
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/rvGTZSFU8sY