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by egonelbre 4198 days ago
> It doesn't mention the major inconsistencies in golang at all.

It has little relevance to "Generics". They are simply how Go is implemented, the question is whether "Generics" as a user implementable thing should be added.

> CLR

From my quick reasearch, it uses runtime code generation and Go must run in environments where that is disallowed.
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pjmlp 4198 days ago
Regarding the CLR you have ahead of time compilers in the form of Mono for iOS, Windows Phone, Bartok, ngen and now .NET Native.

How the generic code generation differs from the JIT approach I don't know.

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waps 4198 days ago
It has relevance to generics. Right now the question implies Go does not have generics, which is not true at all. The question should be reworded :

Go has generic types and generic/polymorphic functions. Therefore all the focus on that such functions are not necessary/useful seems entirely beside the point, the result of misunderstanding. Can normal Go programmers please be allowed to make use of that feature ?

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