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“Go 2” is a pipedream. It won’t happen

• alophawen 4y ago
  Go on
• armchairhacker 4y ago
  C++ should be renamed to "Go 18465927"
• Matthias247 4y ago
  Are the recently introduced generics part of Go 2 - or not? I thought at one point in time the team announced that Go 2 would always be a backwards compatible evolution of the language, so it seems new features could happen independent of whether one labels them as Go or Go 2.
  • morelisp 4y ago
    Both generics and the errors.Is/errors.As interface began life as "Go 2" projects. "Go 2" is a catch-all bucket for anything that might need to be incompatible.
    • metaltyphoon 4y ago
      Right... so there is no Go 2. It's silly for a language that prides so much on semver and how its package versioning uses it, to make "Go 2" backwards compatible.
      • morelisp 4y ago
        "Go 2" is not backwards compatible. Features planned for "Go 2" which are backwards compatible get backported to Go 1. This is aligned with semver.