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by pjmlp 3121 days ago
Lets not forget that was in 1999, 10 years before Go came into existence.
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For the record I'm not trying to argue generics are not important, on the contrary having worked with them for years go seems to be too limiting in this matter for my practical use.

But I agree they can be tricky to get right (compare e.g. declaration-site vs use-site variance [0]) or "accidentaly Turing-complete" TypeScript [1].

[0]: https://schneide.wordpress.com/2015/05/11/declaration-site-a...

[1]: https://gist.github.com/hediet/63f4844acf5ac330804801084f87a...