I'm curious, was any consideration given to hiding generics behind a flag in 1.18? The idea being it's such a complex feature that one could imagine a backwards incompatible change being desirable if some weird issue is found.
On Monday, October 11, 2021 at 5:26:35 PM UTC+13 Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 2:55 AM nil...@gmail.com <nil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > We are really excited about the coming generics support in Go, our test > drive of the generics support in 1.17 is so far pretty positive and it > would also allow us to immediately delete tens of thousands lines of code > from our main project. > > > > Our understanding is that Go team's current plan is to have the generics > support enabled by default in the 1.18 release scheduled for Feb 2022. The > question we are facing now is how much certainty we have on that. I mean if > generics could get delayed until 1.19, which would be 10 months from now, > then we should probably wait rather than switching to the full use of > generics now. > > > > Could someone from the Go team provide us some guidance please? Shall we > wait until the coming code freeze or maybe beta1 to expect more > clarification? > > The current expectation is that Go 1.18 will support generics. The > tip Go compiler already supports generics. There are bugs, but as > they are reported they are being fixed. It is reasonably likely that > some generics corner cases will not compile in Go 1.18, but the > expectation is that straightforward uses of generics will work as > expected. It is also likely that performance in Go 1.18 will not be > as good as it will be in later releases. > > Of course, it's impossible to guarantee this. Something completely > unexpected could happen. But that is the expectation. Hope this > helps. > > 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/a2b05910-9cdc-4fb4-94d5-61bd12812089n%40googlegroups.com.
