I like Golang, a lot, but I’m routinely embarrassed by Go advocates attempts to dismiss serious PL safety features like option types.
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I could believe that, but I don't find that line of thinking super productive
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FWIW, if you put me in charge of Go, I’d add basic ML generics w/ no functors, some sort of sealed interface ADTs, and try! like error sugar
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I suspect he saw complexity with generics in C++, Scala, etc. (valid so far) and made a bold (too bold) decision to forego the feature.
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