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Constraints in Go

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indulona ◴[] No.42163167[source]
i have been writing Go exclusively for 5+ years and to this day i use generics only in a dedicated library that works with arrays(slices in Go world) and provides basic functionality like pop, push, shift, reverse, filter and so on.

Other than that, generics have not really solved an actual problem for me in the real world. Nice to have, but too mush fuss about nothing relevant.

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1. kaba0 ◴[] No.42163694[source]
Well, generics are mostly meant for library code. Just because you don't need it, doesn't mean that code you use doesn't need it.