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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Is There a Place for Generics?

Go has been criticised for not having generics. The language's co-creator, Rob Pike, says the lack of them forced developers to get it right. He argues that Go should have had generics in order to silence critics and a sort of PR exercise. But does he think this is worth doing? We'll test these out on social media.

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