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So do we like Generics or not?

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Slices for Prometheus

Slices will become part of the standard library and go 1.21, but it's available right now as part of the experimental directory from Google. So where you would previously use sort dot slice, you can change that to slices dot sort. And in particular, when you sorting like integers, which which happens a couple of times in Prometheus, for instance, the generic one just compiles all the way down to like the machine instructions for less than. That's pretty cool. I always want to make programs faster.

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