Miss Dada  🏳️‍⚧️

make() vs new(): because forcing users to deal with differences between system and user types is the C Way. #golang

@avdi make and new are different 'cos they do different things. http://dave.cheney.net/2014/08/17/go-has-both-make-and-new-functions-what-gives …

@davecheney (or, alternately, make is itself a horribly verbose literal syntax)

@avdi I think that is an overreaction. #golang isn't a language which strives for brevity above all else.

@davecheney but make adds no new information over and above a literal. It's noise.

@avdi you cannot use the literal form to construct a slice with zero length and a non zero capacity.

. @davecheney and another sign of why making built-in types "special" is almost always a bad idea in PL design: specialness accumulates.

@avdi yes, #golang does not have user defined generic types, only the three special types from the runtime, so they need special syntax.