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I'm sorry, but I don't get this comment. Go is a great programming language! It is great because it is easy to write, read and maintain programs written in Go.

I'm sorry, but I don't get this comment. Go is a great programming language! It is great because it is easy to write, read and maintain programs written in Go. This is because of the following features: - Simple syntax - Fast compile times - Great tooling (go fmt, go vet, go too pprof, go tool cover, race detector, ect.) - Useful standard library Generics do not improve any of these features :( They complicate syntax, they slow down compile times and they complicate internals of go compiler and tools.

valyala 4y ago
BTW, it is great to see that Go1.20 and the upcoming Go1.21 [1] return to good things instead of generics: - Performance optimizations (profile-guided optimization, GC optimizations, etc.) - Reducing compile times - Reducing binary sizes (improved linker, which can throw away unused code more aggressively) [1] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/V8ez4YunkeE https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/V8ez4YunkeE