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>Idiomatic Java/J2EE circa 1998-2008 was total crap (the programming style, not the language) I think part of the aim of Go was to make this style impossible,

• Zach_the_Lizard 10y ago
  Go's lack of generics however (except for special blessed built ins that are OK) forces some of those bad patterns however. Want to write a linked list that works on all types? Hope you like reflection or annoying code generation or copy and paste.
  • dilap 10y ago
    or casting, which is a selective bit of loss of type safety (& a speed hit), but is what the std library linked list impl actually uses, and is what pre-generics java & objc used forever. it ain't great, but it ain't a disaster, either.
    • Zach_the_Lizard 10y ago
      It's 1990s coding in 2016. We have a better way, and even go implements it for certain special types.
      • dilap 10y ago
        i'm not saying it's great, but it's the most practical thing in most cases in go, & it was missing from your list. whether or not go would be better with generics is still an open question imo.