Programs written against a current Go version should continue to work indefinitely. So, yes, if you don't want to take advantage of generics (or other Go 2 changes), you don't have to do any work to have your program continue to work. That's why I don't like the "Go 2" label - there just won't be a traditional compatibility break (most likely).
There is, of course, one caveat: Any observable change in behavior can be made "breaking", by writing a program that a) observes the behavior, b) does nothing under the current behavior and c) panics under the new. That is, you can write a program that, for example, passes a go program using generics to go/types and panics *if that compiles*. Then, technically, that program breaks once we introduce generics. But I think apart from artificial situations like that, any reasonable program can be reasonably assumed to continue working as before. On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:10 PM clément auger <clementauger...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering if some backward compatibility is planned for programs > heavily relying > on *ast, parser, type, packages* packages to analyze, interpret, > manipulate go source code. > > I read this morning the blog and it says > 'The language changes are fully backward compatible' in its last news on > this topic, > does it apply to this case ? > > I am wondering the same question about the reflect package. > I wonder at which extent it will have to be modified to welcome this new > feature. > > I am asking those questions partly because i hope I will be able to > transition without work, tbh, though maybe it wont be possible ? > > In any cases, can I already read the new implementation somewhere or is it > too soon ? > > thank you for reading. > > -- > 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/148f99b9-1e1a-4d0a-a3d2-44ac068bf230n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/148f99b9-1e1a-4d0a-a3d2-44ac068bf230n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAEkBMfFORt8xVjJW%2B_ATW3PJykbo0v%2BzAiuhgOjdOeOkY_59jw%40mail.gmail.com.
