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New comment by improgrammer007 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:14:03 +0000

This. One should never pick a language that regresses in terms of features from the get go.

New comment by improgrammer007 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:05:52 +0000

It's an utter waste of time for developers, business, everyone. Millions of lines of Go code have been written without generics. Libraries have been written. Support, maintenance, cost, etc. This is why one shouldn't pick languages that regress in features from the get go. Now developers will waste time migrating the code to stdlib. This is not solving problems. This is doing tech for the sake of doing tech. Wasting everyone's time. Remember that code is not the deliverable.

New comment by improgrammer007 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:57:30 +0000

Yes, just used the word for emphasis :-)

New comment by improgrammer007 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:43:33 +0000

Nothing is wrong. What was wrong before when they vehemently argued against adding it? Is that design principle/core value lost now?

New comment by improgrammer007 in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:41:09 +0000

First they said they won't add generics. They violently defended that decision. Developers bent over backwards to make it work without generics. Some even wrote long blog posts defending Rob Pike's decision. Some wrote posts arguing against it. Now the Golang team adds them. Why waste so much developer time? It's not a few months. It's several years. This industry is seriously a clown show tbh.

New comment by improgrammer007 in "Microsoft CTO says he wants to swap most AMD and Nvidia GPUs for homemade chips"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:42:51 +0000

For those who don't know Msft is working on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-maia-for-the-er...

New comment by improgrammer007 in "Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:51:13 +0000

They even downvote people who suggest C++ :-). Doing this in C is such a colossal waste of time and energy, not to mention the bugs it'll introduce. Sigh!

New comment by improgrammer007 in "Making a StringBuffer in C, and questioning my sanity"

improgrammer007 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:17:53 +0000

I would rather focus on solving the main problem than reinvent the wheel. Just use C++ if perf is critical which gives you all these things for free. In this day and age the reasons for using C as your main language should be almost zero.