On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 12:46 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 12:01 PM 'Axel Wagner' via golang-nuts > <golang-nuts@googlegroups.com> wrote: > > > Go is an inclusive project and wants everyone to feel welcome - > *obviously* that includes people who want generics in the language. Please > read - and keep to - the Go community Code of Conduct: > https://golang.org/conduct > > I have never read the CoC, but I don't expect it justifies implanting > irrelevant social issues into a technical discussion like this to be > used as an argument against a differing opinion. Please don't, thank > you. >
You might want to give it a read, then. It includes "Be friendly and welcoming" as the first Gopher value. Saying "I think people who want generics added to Go should go and program in Java or C++" and asking "Why are you even here!?" is clearly the opposite of welcoming. And, FTR, saying something is "a technical discussion" doesn't make it so. This thread is almost exclusively about *social* issues - the arguments brought forth are mostly talking about how decisions are made, baseless claims that generics are added solely by majority decision or polls, fear-mongering about slippery slopes, appeals to authority and trying to create an us-vs-them and "threatening" to split the community. There is very little technical content here. I feel well justified in calling this out as destructive behavior. Back to the topic. Yes, I agree that Go is going through a serious > case of featuritis for some time. It's sad, but knowing there's > nothing I can do about it, I'm not really frustrated. Afterall there > are places where generics will be just fine. I will be frustrated, > however, when I'll have to read generic code in places where it > shouldn't be generic. Grep would no longer point me to a particular, > plain readable implementation, which then would have to be built > mentally only and that will be much more complicated to do. > > That will happen. It happens routinely in every other programming > language that has generics. Because for so many it's so cool to write > write-only code. > > I'm sometimes a sinner too. > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAEkBMfGSn5vOjZ873WiemNSXOWKovbGM5dJJvG4ESTmdiFmNsA%40mail.gmail.com.
