On Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 15:01:45 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
It's also something that they've kept out of the language by design. I don't disagree with that decision either. If the selling points are fast compilation and code that is simple to write and read without much knowledge of the language, it's hard to see how generics fit in. Look at D. Templates slow compilation and having a standard library that emphasizes generic code makes it much harder to learn.
I'm no expert on programming language design, but I think there is a difference between templates and generics. At the basic level they are used for similar things - specializing container types, etc. But templates usually allow much more, so they end up being layers of layers of compile time code, e.g. D and Boost, which while nifty has it's compilation time cost.
