On: Leaving Go

[personZ]

Go's native synonyms of lists, vectors and maps are already "generic", so I'm not sure what your point is.

[cgh → personZ]

Except the containers aren't typed. They are essentially containers of void*. If you believe that to be "generic", then you don't understand the topic.

[personZ → cgh]

This is simply wrong, and you clearly don't understand Go (which, as we've amply seen, doesn't stop people from pontificating about it).

[cgh → personZ]

You are right, I overlooked the magic of Go's build-in containers (I admit, I haven't touched the language after we looked at it around a year ago). I amend my comments to apply to user-defined containers and types, where generic == interface{}...at least, it did when we tried the language out.

This is an example of a simple "generic" in Go, as I recall it:

  type mytype struct {
    mydata interface{}
  }

The casting this requires felt like a step into the past when you're used to eg the STL.