On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:26:53 -0500, div0 <d...@sourceforge.net> wrote:
On 12/11/2010 21:42, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"uriel_follower"<wasteyourt...@reddit.com> wrote in message
People who find generics worthwhile *don't use Go*. So of course the
remaining Go users aren't going to miss them.
Because nobody ever reused any code in languages without generics!
Sure they did. But they re-use a hell of a lot more *with* generics.
(Or at
least generics that aren't as pointlessly gimped as the C# generics.)
Yeah, I've been forced to do a lot of C# for web apps recently and
before that experience, I'd have said that I don't do much template code
and that using a language without them won't be a big deal.
However even doing a relatively small web app, in C# made me really miss
being able to knock out some quick template code to sort out the
repetitive bits. C#s version of generics is laughably crap.
You might not use templates every day, but when you need/want them
absolutely nothing else comes close.
I have to agree, the one time I tried to use generics in C# I was
frustrated to no end (what I mean by use is write my own parameterized
types with them). Generics are really only good for containers. Even if
Go did add Generics, I think they are still missing the boat.
-Steve
