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by rubiquity 4123 days ago
> Again, I don't think Go is perfect but on my list of wants, generics are not in the top 5.

Would you mind sharing your top 5 wants? I'm interested.

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Sure! In order:

A Debugger.

Better IDE options.

Binary sizes small enough to use for embedded programming.

Pauseless Garbage Collector.

Less awkward variable declaration.

> A Debugger

https://golang.org/doc/gdb (some limitations IIRC)

https://github.com/derekparker/delve (a work in progress, but promising)