So do we like Generics or not?
Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering
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The Importance of Generic Types in Programming
You don't need generics, but it means that you can you can have these things which were before you might pass a dynamic interface value and maybe do a type coercion like the classic case of courses with containers. You know, in that particular example, hold it putting an integer in a interface. If it's greater than 256 or something like that, then it's actually going to have an allocation to put that in an interface. So you're actually paying the price of storing that data where there is only one slot for it. That can really mount up in terms, particularly when you have larger data structures which incorporate types.
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