On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 9:12:54 AM UTC-4, Chad wrote: > > > > The appeal of generics is probably a false appeal. > > Then, if you accept the trilemma described at http://research.swtch.com/generic, that puts you in favor of "slow programmers"... just kidding. I went back to read all the comments from that blog post and found that it could have been written yesterday. Not much has changed since 2009. One commenter Rivorus <http://www.blogger.com/profile/03014588465653251422> is very eloquent, favoring generics and points convincingly to the Boost Graph Library as why they are necessary. Others not so much. Pretty much like every thread on this topic when it comes up.
But I think the key is that Go's target of server side development rarely needs generics (think of Docker, Kubernetics, web server, etc.). However, just last April, Ian Lance Taylor stated forcefully "Go should support some form of generic programming. Generic programming enables the representation of algorithms and data structures in a generic form, with concrete elements of the code (such as types) factored out. It means the ability to express algorithms with minimal assumptions about data structures, and vice-versa." at https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-generics.md. This leads me to conclude that there are whole areas of software development that Go could impact significantly if it introduced generics. I think someone already pointed this out earlier in the thread, that this area is one of Libraries, Frameworks. This is an area of some controversy in the Go community. See, for instance, Doug Cheney's blog post at http://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/26/go-frameworks-and-ludditry. But I'm with Ian on this point. Go needs it, but I'm content to wait for it to be done well. -- 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.
