Hopefully, the Go team will encapsulate all generics in a separate module(s), so that those of us who want to ignore them can easily do so
On Monday, December 21, 2020 at 7:26:02 AM UTC-5 Space A. wrote: > Unfortunately it was expected that creators of the language will not > resist forever being under the pressure of masses most which do not even > code in Go, or not use Go as the main language and just following patterns > and shitty idioms they took elsewhere. Generics are bullshit crap in its > essence. They either don't improve anything or overused (with some huge > cost). I'm telling this as someone who had 15+ years in Java before moved > to Go. I was literally happy when I found that Go has almost everything > which is good about programming and almost nothing bad. And I knew that it > will start degrading at some point. I just keep some hopes that community > will fork the language after this "Cyberpunk" releases. Rephrasing "no is > temporary, yes is forever": good Go is temporary. > > > > > воскресенье, 20 декабря 2020 г. в 22:38:54 UTC+3, Martin Hanson: > >> I think people who want generics added to Go should go and program in >> Java or C++. >> >> Adding generics to Go will ruin the beautiful simplicity of the language >> and I haven't found a single example in which adding generics to Go pays >> off. >> >> Even with the examples of having two almost identical functions reverse >> some list, one of ints and one of strings, seriously!? We already have tons >> and tons of open source reusable code that covers all use cases which >> people complain about. >> >> Go was designed without generics purposefully from the start and Go is >> fine just the way it is. >> >> Adding generics means that we're opening the door to the beginning of >> bloating Go with all the crap that Java, C++ and all the other complex >> languages has gotten over the years, and Go was designed specifically >> without that clutter. So we add generics, then what? Classes? >> >> Adding generics to Go ruins that beautiful simplicity that went into the >> design and the added complexity just isn't worth it! The standard library >> have managed just fine without generics and so have we! >> > -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/ad1b3da3-f270-47f9-8c08-ffc5ea6cb5efn%40googlegroups.com.
