Sydney Golang Meetup - Rob Pike - Go 2 Draft Specifications

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1. @twoodfinNov 2018· in “Go 2, here we come”

   Rob Pike had a good talk on the Go 2 process and a few of the proposals that went up on YouTube a few days ago: this video

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2. @mseepgoodJul 2021· in “Map[string]interface{} in Go: a user's manual”

   > purely for ideological reasons There are no ideological reasons. [LINK] "Generics may well come at some point." [LINK] "A language proposal implementing a form of generic types has been accepted for inclusion in the language. If all goes well it will be available in the Go 1.18 release." One of the language designers explaining the motivation for adding parametric polymorphism to Go: this video Explaining the benefits of generics: [LINK] From the Featherweight Go paper: [LINK] "Recently, the Go team mooted a design to extend Go with generics, and Rob Pike wrote Wadler to ask: Would you be interested in helping us get polymorphism right (and/or figuring out what “right” means) for some future version of Go?"

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3. @mseepgoodFeb 2021· in “Golang generics proposal has been accepted”

   > I'm thinking of Rob Pike I do not remember him being against generics. He is the one who contacted his former colleague Phil Wadler to help with the theoretical validation of the type parameters proposal. In his talk about the Go 2 draft specifications (back then the proposal was still based on contracts) he was positive that a good design can be found. (*) this video

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4. @pjmlpJun 2024· in “The upcoming iterator design for Go 1.23”

   Cox is not the founding team, and Rob Pike has publicly expressed he is not happy with the generics decision, but it wasn't his decision to take. "Sydney Golang Meetup - Rob Pike - Go 2 Draft Specifications" this video (starts here) this video (he expresses his opinion here)

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5. @pjmlpNov 2018· in “Fixed – Fixed-place decimal math library for Go”

   A domain name is not a programming language name, oh look this cool stuff I have done in ISOCPP. You can watch Rob Pike publicly correcting someone at the end of his "Go 2 Draft Specifications" session during Q&A. this video

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