On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 11:03 PM Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:
> The formal proposal (https://golang.org/issue/43651) got 1784 thumbs > up and 123 thumbs down (and ten "confused"). Yes, there were critics. > But I think it is fair to say that the proposal has far more > supporters than critics. I think it should be noted that: - No one knows how many of the voters don't actually use Go or are Go novices. IOW, the statistical properties of the voting population are not known to be the same or even reasonably similar within a certain margin to those of the population of Go programmers. - We can create a hypothesis, that if only people coding in Go for more than N years, the results may get very different or even inverted. Due to the above we cannot decide the validity of the hypothesis. The validity could be, or could have been somehow estimated by asking a smaller corpus of well known Go developers. Not meant as a decisive body. Just to get some more reliable data. The Github votes are, technically speaking, not distinguishable from noise, ad hoc brigading, etc. - Regardless of the endless promotion of inclusiveness, the voting using the service of a single and notoriously controversial provider of said service ignores, or excludes if you will, people not using that service for any reason, not only the one I just mentioned. In the light of the above, it's a bit surprising that the voting results are even seriously mentioned in this discussion. ---- Some may have mistakenly inferred I'm against generics. I'm not. But I'm neither in favor of them. Yet. Ask me some years after they are released. -- 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/CAA40n-VYbKofZK3ezAwbshHGZeBR8dRGpY6ZB1vQ5RH7-J0QPw%40mail.gmail.com.
