The build time issue is an artifact of C++ and templates. When generics were introduced to C# 2.0, they did do not negatively affect build times.
On Friday, July 28, 2017 at 6:41:56 AM UTC-7, Robert Melton wrote: > > My primary concern about generics is they may significantly hurt build > times, which coming from C++ I am rather sensitive about. Beyond that I am > worried that they might end up NOT being an improvement over all the tools > that have already popped up to handle this problem. There are a lot of > ways to generate code for Go already that can be run once and checked into > your source repo. Regenerated if you need to support a new type or fix a > bug. This is very reasonable and rational IMHO. I have yet to have a > significant issue with this approach, outside of tooling phobia. > > Even in languages with prolific template support, I have often ended up > eschewing them for better, external text processing tools. I think Mike > Acton has something useful to add to the conversation about avoiding > templates in C++: https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc?t=1h11m19s > > Questioner: ...you're against templates... how do you deal with code > duplication?... > > Mike Acton: ... templates, how do you remove code duplication? One, it is > almost certainly not as big a problem as people think it is. They invent > things to duplicate so they can invent templates to solve the problem. But > in the cases where it is potentially useful you can also generate the code. > A template is just a poor man's text processing tool, we have tons of > stuff that processes text, you can actually do a really great job with some > other tool that does it better. You don't need templates in order to solve > that problem... > > /mytwocents > > -- > Robert Melton | rme...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
