[continuational]

The marketing is very impressive indeed, I won't argue against that. I can only think of Angular 1.0 as an equally impressive feat of advertising (I totally bought into that - for a while).

But logically, what you suggest implies that either generics aren't absolutely needed, and shouldn't be in Go, or it's absolutely needed, and Go has been lacking them for a long time.

[nullspace]

I’m sorry, I don’t think you can state absolutes like this with respect to languages.

After 5 years of programming in Scala, professionally, writing and debugging a cli tool in Go-Lang felt like a breath of fresh air. I agree with about go marketing, in that I think the creators of go found a larger “market” of devs and understood them better.

[continuational]

I think you're replying to the wrong person - I merely explained how the absolutes in the parent post were self contradictory.

[yahyaheee]

haha yup, Go actually understands its community, Scala is more concerned with doing really "smart" stuff

[yahyaheee]

no it just implies the don't willy nilly throw in any feature into the language like Scala, and I am incredibly grateful for it after writing Scala for a couple years, what a mess

[playing_colours]

Scala tends to be more of a kitchen sink, kind of an academic experiment brought to industry, whereas Go is way too far down the path of having only “absolutely needed” features - they promoted it as a “pragmatic, boring” language to focus on your business and write consistent code. As a result, this approach makes the language less expressive, really boring for many engineers, and also, unfortunately, it brought some bad practices - repetitions, error handling from last century, etc.

Languages are in a big part matter of tastes, and it does not make sense to criticize their chosen approaches beyond objective technical merits for your tasks.

[yahyaheee]

Sure there are use cases for Scala, they are just few and far between nowadays. If your looking to experiment with crazy functional stuff have fun, just don't write actual software in it, which was unfortunately the outcome, and a bunch of companies paid the price