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I think you overestimate the number of people who care that much about Go. It's not very widely used. It would also be a massive effort to add generics to it a

I think you overestimate the number of people who care that much about Go. It's not very widely used. It would also be a massive effort to add generics to it at this point, because of the design choices the team made early on.

giovannibajo1 10y ago
Not sure what counts for "widely used", but it's now in the top20 TIOBE: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
zzzcpan 10y ago
> It would also be a massive effort to add generics to it at this point Not really. The easiest approach would take like a day for PoC.
- twblalock 10y ago
  What approach would that be?
  - zzzcpan 10y ago
    That would be meta/templating approach.
themartorana 10y ago
"It's not very widely used." Um. Well ok, maybe but not likely, as pointed out by a sibling comment, but it is used by a large fraction of companies that deal with services on an enormous scale - Google (obvi), Dropbox, Cloudflare... here, better than copy/paste: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers You're going to recognize an awful lot of those companies. Edit: not sure if it counts, but the number of companies using software written in Go in mission-critical ops is enormous (see: Docker).