> `go generate` was never designed as a way to bring generics to Go.
Unix was designed to port Spacewar. What's that got to do with anything?
> Most Go programmers are not "ignorant of basic functional programming".
That doesn't match my experience. The overwhelming majority of Go people I know, and the loudest advocates to whom I am exposed, seem to regard functional programming as a nothing. Your experience may differ.
> Go partisans don't "recommend" to stuff everything in interface{} and use "blind" type assertions everywhere.
Again, that doesn't match my experience; this was literally recommended to me by a senior-level Google engineer. To his credit, he suggested instead using `go generate` as an alternative. (Because that's better. =/ )
> I don't think that using words like "junk", "stupid" or "dumb" helps in making your point.
Completely fair criticism. But let me put it this way: I view Go, and the terminally blinkered Rob Pike, and his disciples, to be so obviously and monstrously disastrous to what I do for a living that those were the remains after a pretty heavy dose of editing and self-censorship.
I could tell you how I actually feel if you'd like. =)
Unix was designed to port Spacewar. What's that got to do with anything?
> Most Go programmers are not "ignorant of basic functional programming".
That doesn't match my experience. The overwhelming majority of Go people I know, and the loudest advocates to whom I am exposed, seem to regard functional programming as a nothing. Your experience may differ.
> Go partisans don't "recommend" to stuff everything in interface{} and use "blind" type assertions everywhere.
Again, that doesn't match my experience; this was literally recommended to me by a senior-level Google engineer. To his credit, he suggested instead using `go generate` as an alternative. (Because that's better. =/ )
> I don't think that using words like "junk", "stupid" or "dumb" helps in making your point.
Completely fair criticism. But let me put it this way: I view Go, and the terminally blinkered Rob Pike, and his disciples, to be so obviously and monstrously disastrous to what I do for a living that those were the remains after a pretty heavy dose of editing and self-censorship.
I could tell you how I actually feel if you'd like. =)