This release also fixes runtime.findnull() to be compatible with MTE on Android ([1] and [2]). This was the only thing preventing MTE from being enabled for apps that use gomobile on MTE-compatible Android OS's like GrapheneOS.
Am I the only one who’s absolutely shocked that Go finally is embracing generics?
Does anyone have a bit of an inside view into what changed in the perspectives of the language maintainers?
I’m not buying the “it took us 20 years to understand how to do it correctly” argument, as this is something you explicitly take into consideration when designing the language or not. And it was specifically not a part of language design, and is much harder to retrofit (backwards compatibility).
It’s also not true that because it wasn’t part of the initial design that it was harder to retrofit. I just don’t understand all this go bashing that happens on this site especially when so much is badly informed speculation. I guess it’s easier to tear something down.
Seriously, that's all it was. Just Ian alone proposed and rejected a half dozen of his own different approaches to generics. Finally a language + implementation plan came together that people all liked.
[1] https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/749062
[2] https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/751020
Does anyone have a bit of an inside view into what changed in the perspectives of the language maintainers?
I’m not buying the “it took us 20 years to understand how to do it correctly” argument, as this is something you explicitly take into consideration when designing the language or not. And it was specifically not a part of language design, and is much harder to retrofit (backwards compatibility).
So what changed?
Seriously, that's all it was. Just Ian alone proposed and rejected a half dozen of his own different approaches to generics. Finally a language + implementation plan came together that people all liked.
Nobody was ever opposed to generics that I saw.
The original maintainers moved on to other projects and the new community maintainers came to a consensus through the proposal and governance process.