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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. whateveracct ◴[] No.42165680[source]
this is wild because i use parametric polymorphism by writing `forall` in basically every Haskell PR i do for work ever

i think Go having a pretty bad implementation of parametric polymorphism (a programming concept from the 70s) is probably the root cause here