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The problem space may seem solved, but apparently it's still not as easy as it looks from the outside. You don't have to take my word for it, Cthulhu_ linked a
by rob74 5y ago
The problem space may seem solved, but apparently it's still not as easy as it looks from the outside. You don't have to take my word for it, Cthulhu_ linked a comment by Russ Cox (a major contributor to Go) from a few years ago above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417
> We have spoken to a few true experts in Java generics and each of them has said roughly the same thing: be very careful, it's not as easy as it looks, and you're stuck with all the mistakes you make.
- gadflyinyoureye 5y agoI agree. From my Java experience most people don’t do a lot with them. List<Something> and the like. It makes things like boiler plate easier. I’m not saying it’s easy to implement. Rather the ideas are there and implementable. Typescript has them and it’s relatively young.