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Have you actually built any real projects in Go? Because pretty much everyone I know who has tried (and who has learned enough Go to write minimally idiomatic c

• zura 14y ago
  Before using it in a real project, it is obvious to do some research, isn't it? So some questions and concerns arise, naturally. Regarding generics, I really don't like what Go offers instead [1]. By the way, creators themselves haven't eliminated the chance of adding generics in later versions of the language [2]. Also, I don't understand why not have destructors (deterministic, not the finalizer...) in many cases where currently `defer` is used. I also don't like the trick you have to do for checking the interface integrity [3]. All in all, I have a sympathy for Go, lets see what will happen in 2.0. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6255720/making-generic-algorithms-in-go/9651473#9651473 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6255720/making-generic-al... [2] http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#generics http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#generics [3] http://golang.org/src/pkg/encoding/json/stream.go#L187 http://golang.org/src/pkg/encoding/json/stream.go#L187
• jongraehl 14y ago
  Go advocates and sympathizers would do well to drop this fully general riposte.