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nulltype on Aug 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interview with Zig language creator Andrew Kelley ...

I think they've been saying "We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it." since 2013: https://web.archive.org/web/20130410000959/https://golang.or...

wtetzner on Sept 4, 2020 [–]

That's what they've been saying, but I don't buy it.

I mean, the workarounds are horrible code generation tools and reflection. How were those ever not considered to be more complex than generics?

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