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> But I see that these impairments are seen as problems by key developers, and work is underway to eventually fix these problems. What will inevitably happen i
by xienze 10y ago
> But I see that these impairments are seen as problems by key developers, and work is underway to eventually fix these problems.
What will inevitably happen is that Pike et al will argue that such things are merely problems because "you're doing it wrong" or "there's no way to do this without any tradeoffs of any kind" (generics), and ultimately very little will change.
- twic 10y agoThe other alternative is that they allow them, and Go slowly loses its magic and becomes another Algol, C++, or Java.
- meddlepal 10y agoGod forbid it become as useful and ubiquitous as C++ or Java.
- enneff 10y agoRuss Cox, the guy who wrote this post, is the technical lead for the Go project. He authored more of Go's code base than anyone else (by a huge margin). His opinion about these issues holds more weight than pretty much anyone. I wouldn't downplay it.