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> it's a poor worksman who blames his tools This is such a ridiculous common myth, and I've been hearing it repeated my entire life. While not everything, too

• scrollaway 8y ago
  And typescript is a fantastic tool. Yet, the commenter in question keeps blaming it for ills that have nothing to do with it.
• Cthulhu_ 8y ago
  It does matter, but if you have a problem with a tool you need to make an informed statement about it. Instead of yelling "Go needs generics!", look up the original reasoning behind the lack of them first - because they DID think about it, long and hard. (as an example)
  • oblio 8y ago
    > Instead of yelling "Go needs generics!", look up the original reasoning behind the lack of them first - because they DID think about it, long and hard. (as an example) A lot of the people complaining about Go lacking generics knew about this and were just saying that the Go designers' conclusion was wrong, based on existing evidence: the myriad languages supporting generics without major issues. If conservative languages such as Java and C# could get generics in 2005, surely Go could have gotten them as well, back in 2012.