[go-nuts] Re: Generics are overrated.

Daily reminder: This thread was about concerns that generics would divide Go community. Not about necessity of generics in general. Two possible scenarios: 1) Go have programmers from very different backgrounds, some used generics often while others never used it. (e.g. Java and C). So differen

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Generics are overrated.

> > Also, building a basic one yourself if you don't want to use those tends > to be exceptionally straightforward. > Thanks for examples, i can't tell if they are experimental or viable for production use. But if it's that straightforward, why people complain about it too much. I implement

[go-nuts] Re: Generics are overrated.

I was watching rus cox's last talk and he mentioned that not every problem should be solved by language change. Some can be solved by tooling or library change. I am curious has any of the generics lovers written a tool that helps for generic beha

[go-nuts] Generics are overrated.

*Everything in this thread is my personal opinions, they are not necessarily the truth.* My main language was C for a decade. I also liked Python. When i started learning Go, it almost felt like i knew the language in another life. Everything was so obvious. CSP model of concurrency was new to