July 25, 2023

So do we like Generics or not?

1 hour 28 minutes

So, do we like generics or not? Some people feared they’d be the end of the language. Others were very hopeful, and had clear use cases, and were thrilled about the feature coming to the language. It was also often touted as the reason a lot of people didn’t adopt Go. So what do we think now? Mat and Kris are joined by Roger Peppe and Bryan Boreham to discuss the state of Generics in Go.

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Featuring:

Roger Peppe – GitHub, X
Bryan Boreham – X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Kris Brandow – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

New slices package

Go 1.21 release notes

Roger’s talk on unconstrained generics

Roger’s proposal on type assertions

Roger’s generics mini testing framework

Mat’s mini testing framework

Dishwasher video

Dishwasher video v2

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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