Language Generics Debate
The cluster centers on discussions about the necessity, implementation challenges, pros and cons of generics in programming languages, including comparisons across Go, C, Java, C#, and regrets or benefits of their presence or absence.
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Has the absence of generic types been a problem for you?
Implementing generic types efficiently is difficult.
Can you provide some examples of languages where people regret having implemented generics at all (as opposed to wishing they had been implemented in a different way)?
Can you give an example of the value this would provide that isn't provided by generics?
Or use a language with reified generics :)
So kind of like Go and generics in that regard
Let's just say it can't have a type-system limited to not understanding generics.
Why does Generic Programming require static types?
Why in almost 2022 do people put up with a language lacking generics?
Generics would hamper its speedy compilation time.