Post #4286094
2026-05-12 03:11 UTC
@Flux@wandering.shop for me personally and a lot of the people I’ve worked with, the tradeoffs it makes - most especially the lack of generics - cause a ton of friction. They’re good, thoughtful, thoroughly considered engineering tradeoffs, but haven’t been the right ones for the contexts where I’ve worked.
That said, and deeply ironically: having assistance from LLMs can smooth over a lot of that friction…
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@Flux@wandering.shop 2026-05-12 03:46
@avi@cosocial.ca Go has generics now, and they've worked well enough for me, though I am by no means a power user there. And yeah, the tools are potent there. I'm finding the main painpoint is that they generate much too much code - there's no parsimony in their output. Lately I've taken to pushing for a prototype in order to explor the space quickly, then coming back with a more careful, more manual re-implementation leaning on the behavior tests from the prototype, but with a much tighter implementation.