Gotards in 2011: nooooo generics are the devil

Gotards in 2020: generics are still the devil, but at least we are not retarded.

https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step

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I don't use Go but I'd give up expressivity for compilation time and reduced retardation in a heartbeat. At this point I'm half programmer half IT spending my time fixing the build pipeline or dependencies or code generation or runtimes or deployment.

Expressiveness and retardation correlate hard.

4 decades of language research

Irrelevant. There's no useful concept that wasn't discovered and implemented 2 decades ago.

C's dusty corpse

C is alive and well. The mouse and keyboard you're using is C. So is your car and fridge and os. The internet isn't real life, just a lens.