On: Proposal: Go should have generics

[isuckatcoding]

This makes me wonder if this has happened before in another language. I can totally imagine 10 years ago someone saying "oh we'll never need that in PHP" and voila 10 years later you've now got feature X in PHP. Any of you wise old timers want to share such examples? Does history keep repeating itself with these sorts of things?

[kqr → isuckatcoding]

Generics in Java? Anonymous functions in Java? Most everything in Java?

[isuckatcoding → kqr]

I guess I was think of the community mentality and how it evolves as well.

[TazeTSchnitzel → isuckatcoding]

PHP now has optional strict type checking for non-complex types, since last year. That was a huge change: https://ajf.me/talks/2015-10-03-better-late-than-never-scala...