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> Go is open source. Even if Google went rogue, there's nothing they could do. Have you ever used a library where the company who paid the development went "wh

> Go is open source. Even if Google went rogue, there's nothing they could do. Have you ever used a library where the company who paid the development went "whoops, not our product anymore! poof goes the paid team, website, the community forums, the knowledgebase" ? Usually nobody continues to maintain these after 90% of the workforce behind them gets fired and the surrounding infrastructure disappears. Software is almost worthless without the brains behind it. > As for generics, they're just nothing more than a developer convenience, So you propose people write the 100,000th implementation of linked lists, maps, etc. because what they want to stick into it is not class A but class B? > Also they're planned in Go for next year. The fact it took years to plan them instead of including them right away is a nice proof of how ill-conceived Go is as a language. It might have been nice as a toy to teach aspiring programmers. It shouldn't have ended up in production software. > Damn, these are some stupid arguments. Thanks. I consider yours as stupid too. How much progress exactly have we achieved with this wording now?

thiht 5y ago
It's pretty clear you're trolling now, but FWIW: - slices and maps are already generic in Go - Go has great performance, great readability and write ability, and that's valuable for everyone, not just beginners - Go is a language, not a library > The fact it took years to plan them instead of including them right away is a nice proof of how ill-conceived Go is as a language. It's not. Really.
- eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 5y ago
  > It's pretty clear you're trolling now I am not. I genuinely think Google is evil and should be dismantled. > - slices and maps are already generic in Go So people are supposed to not rewrite 2 of the possibly infinite types of data structures and classes, and constantly rewrite all the rest of them? > - Go has great performance, great readability and write ability, and that's valuable for everyone, not just beginners Enough other languages do as well. > Go is a language, not a library If Google abandons the funding it does not matter what it technically is. No money, no developers.

thiht 5y ago

It's pretty clear you're trolling now, but FWIW: - slices and maps are already generic in Go - Go has great performance, great readability and write ability, and that's valuable for everyone, not just beginners - Go is a language, not a library > The fact it took years to plan them instead of including them right away is a nice proof of how ill-conceived Go is as a language. It's not. Really.

eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 5y ago
> It's pretty clear you're trolling now I am not. I genuinely think Google is evil and should be dismantled. > - slices and maps are already generic in Go So people are supposed to not rewrite 2 of the possibly infinite types of data structures and classes, and constantly rewrite all the rest of them? > - Go has great performance, great readability and write ability, and that's valuable for everyone, not just beginners Enough other languages do as well. > Go is a language, not a library If Google abandons the funding it does not matter what it technically is. No money, no developers.