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I'm quoting the author directly. I didn't tamper with the quote.

• throwaway894345 5y ago
  I agree that you didn't tamper with the quote, but you clearly weren't rebutting it either. Rather, you were rebutting the idea that Go's type system contains novel features, which the author didn't allege.
  • kubb 5y ago
    The author did allege that the implementation took a long time _because_ the Go type system is "untraditional", which made the task at hand challenging. While it's not clear what one might mean by a "traditional" type system, I'm claiming that the solutions to the problem of implementing generics in Go were well-known (not novel), and therefore the difficulty of coming up with them doesn't justify the long time it took to develop the feature.