On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 12:19 AM Tyler Compton <xavi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm beginning to think that community members (like myself) can't reasonably > be expected to put in the necessary effort to champion a sizable language > change. I think it was Ian who made multiple generics draft proposals just to > reject them himself, then Ian and Robert Griesemer spent more untold hours > writing the contracts draft design only to have that rejected as well. For > people outside the core Go team, these probably would have been unpaid hours. > It's hard to justify spending that kind of time when there's such a high > chance that the proposal may not amount to anything. I think it's for this > reason that community proposals are usually nowhere near as fleshed out as > the draft proposals we've been getting from the core team.
In fairness, though, there is no language change proposal that is as large as generics. The changes that were made in recent releases were much smaller. (And, for what it's worth, they did not all come from Googlers; e.g., https://golang.org/issue/12711, https://golang.org/issue/19308, https://golang.org/issue/29008.) Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAOyqgcUkjy0Q_eD19Jn3%3D%3DJccXiN6Zh56XwStSLwkXa1xDuwqg%40mail.gmail.com.
