You are not bringing anything new to the table here, except the attempt to insult my intelligence, apparently.
There are huge software projects out there written in languages that are less type safe than go and the vast majority of code written is not reusable. Both also aren't absolutes. There is no binary "type safe or not type safe" and no "reusable or not reusable". There are only more or less expressive type systems and there are only pieces of code that are easier or harder to reuse. Every language finds their own tradeoff for them and every programmer must find their own preferences for the tradeoffs they require. go is explicitly designed as an engineering language and the defining characteristic of engineering is the acknowledgment of tradeoffs. So, without acknowledging that this needs to be a tradeoff, there really is not much point in talking about how to improve go. If someone prefers the extreme, might I suggest agda instead of go? I don't know of a more type safe language out there. On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 10:11 AM, <andrew.mez...@gmail.com> wrote: > We continue the discussion about the dangers of `to be both type safe > *and* reusable`? > That is not what I was saying. I was talking about the dangers of generics for producing clear and readable code. That is not an issue with being both, it's an issue with generics. "It needs to be both" just isn't a very good argument in favor of them. > Me and most of us MUST focusing our energy on writing high quailty and > reusable software. > Instead, we seem to focus your energy on debating whether we need to add generics to go or not. There are people out there writing high quality and reusable software *right now*, both in go and not in go. Coincidentally, that's what I'm going to do now too. > Want write software only for himself? Not a problem, your energy are your > energy. > I get paid to write and maintain large software in large teams, in many languages falling into very different spots on the scale of type safety and re-usability and my opinions are informed by that. You shouldn't presume that people disagree with you because they know less. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
