Go is hot right now just like Rails or Node.js used to be hot. So people feel compelled to use the hip thing right now even when they hate it because of fear of missing out. There are better languages out there like Ada who do everything Go does, including concurrency but better and have generics. Trying to fix a feature with code generation is a fool's errand. Competition is good, only when the Go team feels the heat of competition they will think about working on their type system seriously.
You talked about C++ and that's exactly what happened to C++ and why it got all these features in the latest 15 years like auto and constant expressions, it is trying to stay relevant against Java, C# and co. C is what happens when there is no competition. Le vendredi 16 février 2018 18:37:47 UTC-6, dc0d a écrit : > > “There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and > the ones nobody uses.” > > ― Bjarne Stroustrup, > > I use other programming languages too - obviously. And I will continue to > think of better ways to perform Go, if not complaining. > > Meanwhile this <https://github.com/dc0d/goreuse> is a tool to write > generic code in Go, employing code generation (that I wrote) - not waiting > for day dreams to come true and instead get done with the job. > > This was just some thought sharing. > > Especially the last two form - the generic Method Expression and the > interface one - if they be a single-type-parameter type of generics, are > interesting to investigate. > > Like if we could write: > > type method func (*) append(n int, m anotherConcreteType, prev *) > > > > type comparer interface { > (*) compare(*) > } > > None of these mean that Go has to change - while it might, a bit - but > brain teasers. > > On Friday, February 16, 2018 at 3:45:33 PM UTC+3:30, M P r a d e s wrote: >> >> Have a look at Rust, Ada or even C++, they all have some form of generic >> programming and are fast or faster than Go. Bonus, none of these use >> garbage collection. >> >> Don't hold your breath with Go getting any substantial changes in its >> type system. Move on. >> >> Developers should use tools that suit them, not tools that force >> developers to adapt them. >> > -- 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.
