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wtetzner on Nov 10, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Seven years of Go

Overused in what way? Do you have an example of what you mean by that?

I'm having a hard time understanding where using generics would cause problems.

C++ templates, sure, but those are much more powerful than just having parametric polymorphism.

stcredzero on Nov 10, 2016 [–]

C++ templates, sure

C++ templates! I keep on running into places where I'm debugging, then I find myself in a maze formed by template overuse, then debug around that instead.

just having parametric polymorphism

I think that could be workable in Go. I can imagine how debugging that would be straightforward.

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