Please show me a case where developers are demanding that some other language _not have generics_.
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Your criticism of Go would be more interesting if you chatted with the team. rlh@ proposed a generational collector years ago, and has been trialling it in parallel with ROC for the past year. E.g. https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/105367
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He and Austin have been distracted by a fact that has changed since the 90s: server tail latency matters so much Go customers are willing to throw away huge amounts of CPU to remove it. Hence generational is low priority, and the focus has been low pause. It's customer driven.
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There are a lot of good ideas in CS that turn out not to have a whole lot of practical benefit for huge ranges of real-world problems. Look at the instruction set we all code to now! TRAGIC.
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Are you trying to argue that generational GC does not have a practical benefit for most programs? Because that would be very hard to successfully argue!
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