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Imagine a flawless gemstone with a permanent stain on one of the edges. This is go, and this is why people complain endlessly. The creators of go only look at
by crimsonalucard 11y ago
Imagine a flawless gemstone with a permanent stain on one of the edges. This is go, and this is why people complain endlessly.
The creators of go only look at the gemstone from a single angle. So they never see the stain and they really don't care. When people complain to them, they just tell the complainers that they're looking at the gemstone from the wrong angle.
- thegeekpirate 11y ago> The creators of go only look at the gemstone from a single angle. So they never see the stain and they really don't care. When people complain to them, they just tell the complainers that they're looking at the gemstone from the wrong angle. This isn't true at all, and is incredibly naive. Here's the reasoning behind not having generics, for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417 https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics