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How many years to go before go users/developers outside of google will fork "go lang" the way node.js users/developers did ? the go-lang team at google is very

by anjanb 12y ago

How many years to go before go users/developers outside of google will fork "go lang" the way node.js users/developers did ? the go-lang team at google is very smart. It's not that they have a huge amount of high-priority work other than generics. Why don't they address a summary of the sentiment on hacker news on generics ?

coldtea 12y ago
If you're a programmer, your life is made easier if you have access to generics. If you're a language developer, your life is made harder if you have to add generics. And if your language gets all the people that are easily satisfied with something "static and faster to write than C" why go the extra mile? Especially if your goal is not building a commercially succesful language, or an advanced language, or a language to solve 2014's problems, but just to hack on what you have created. Besides, being a great programmer and a great language designer are two different skills. Would a language created by Linus be that good?