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by zadokshi 2408 days ago
Language designers: Design a language to not use generics.

timothycrosley: It doesn't do generics!!! Aaargh!!
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jeremyjh 2408 days ago
Except they didn't. Go has generic maps and slices. It was never their goal to create a language without generics. What happened is they failed to come up with a satisfactory design for user defined generics in time to make Go version 1.
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zadokshi 2407 days ago
Exactly, They didn’t feel it was important. It was not part of the language design.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

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