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by zak_mc_kracken 4291 days ago
Pretty much every article that is posted about Go ends up in a never ending discussion about the absence of generics, which completely drowns the discussions about Go. As a result, the material on the web about Go has a very high noise/signal ratio, which is unfortunate.

Hopefully, the Go team will see this as one more reason to add generics to their language, but until they do that, Go will remain a niche language with a severely crippled potential.
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rdtsc 4291 days ago
> Pretty much every article that is posted about Go ends up in a never ending discussion about the absence of generics

Well either a lot of developers there looking at Go code are crazy, whiny and in general unpleasant human beings that like to make others' lives difficult or ... maybe it is a problem worth discussing.

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ianlancetaylor 4291 days ago
I have to credit this as being one of the more original arguments for adding generics to Go: we should do it because it will increase the signal/noise ratio in discussions about Go.

(Personally, I don't mind the ongoing discussions about generics in Go, I just wish they were less repetitive. It's very easy to say "add generics to Go!" It's a little bit harder to actually do it well.)

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zak_mc_kracken 4290 days ago
Yeah I was trying to insufflate new life in this tired debate, glad someone noticed :)
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