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>It has been close to a decade of Golang now. It's been ~7 years, so there's still two more years before it reaches the amount of time it took Java to get gene

by gribbly 10y ago

>It has been close to a decade of Golang now. It's been ~7 years, so there's still two more years before it reaches the amount of time it took Java to get generics. I'm confident generics will come to Go (I sure hope so), but even if it doesn't, Go's impressive uptake shows that it's not something it desperately needs in order to be a successful language.

pjmlp 10y ago
How much uptake would Go had if it was done at company XYZ? Or Docker guys hadn't used it?
- gribbly 10y ago
  Impossible to answer, how much would uptake would C# have had without Microsoft behind it pushing it HARD (MUCH more than Google has promoted Go), how much would Swift have had without being pushed hard by Apple as the new native language to replace ObjectiveC etc ?
  - pjmlp 10y ago
    That is exactly my point, it would have been probably a footnote in programming languages compendium. Case in point, how interested were people in using Limbo?
    - gribbly 10y ago
      >That is exactly my point The point being that unless you have a huge rich company behind you, you will remain a footnote ?
      - pjmlp 10y ago
        Without that or a kind of killer application, e.g. Rails, yes.
  - coldtea 10y ago
    Too little. Which probably goes to show that uptake doesn't prove much.