alt Hacker Newsmy criticism is that if we make every language identical, we might as well only have one language. (C++, obviously)
There is room for a language without generics. There was a language without generics. Now there is not.
my criticism is that if we make every language identical, we might as well only have one language. (C++, obviously)
There is room for a language without generics. There was a language without generics. Now there is not.
Well here’s the thing on generics. Go always had generics since the very beginning. It’s just that only certain built-in types had them.
Slices, maps, and channels all were generic from day one. Same with functions like append, copy, etc.
Your criticism makes no sense unless you think Go shouldn’t have had generics from the start, which it did.