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Or, to throw a third option one out there -- "Go doesn't have generics because they would interact poorly with some other aspect of the language." That works, t

Or, to throw a third option one out there -- "Go doesn't have generics because they would interact poorly with some other aspect of the language." That works, too. For example, it's why F# continues not to have ad-hoc polymorphism, despite many users clamoring for it. I'm inclined to agree with the project's maintainers on the subject. As useful a thing as it is, and as glaring as it is for a modern descendant of ML not to have it, it's hard to see how it could be added without creating all sorts of language warts.

louthy 8y ago
Both F# and C# can do ad-hoc polymorphism - I use it in my language-ext library [1], the library is C# but the principle is the same for F#. It's not idiomatic (or pretty), but it's possible if needed. Higher-kinds is the killer missing feature. [1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext#ad-hoc-polymorphism https://github.com/louthy/language-ext#ad-hoc-polymorphism