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> 3. Package management. This is being taken care of. A package management committee has been formed and they will come up with a prototype tool in Go 1.8. htt

> 3. Package management. This is being taken care of. A package management committee has been formed and they will come up with a prototype tool in Go 1.8. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qnmjwfMmvSCDaY4jxPmLAccaaUI5FfySNE90gB0pTKQ/edit#heading=h.4d61hnb1y8gc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qnmjwfMmvSCDaY4jxPmLAcca... > 4. Enums. Doesn't the iota identifier solve it for you ? It pretty much covers all my enum use cases.

masklinn 10y ago
> Doesn't the iota identifier solve it for you ? They're talking about sum types (aka tagged unions aka variant record), where you have a proper type with a closed set of variants (which can be checked for completeness by the compiler) and optional associated data (possibly of different types for each variant). Iota isn't even a step up from C's enums, it doesn't come close to what you can find in ML descendants (such as Rust or Swift for the most recent ones).