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		hota_mazi on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go generics are not bad Not really. Rust, Haskell, Kotlin, yes. They force you to consider the error path. Go makes it all too easy to just ignore errors and produce crashy code.

iasay on July 9, 2022 [–]

Go makes it explicit where the error was ignored so you can go and wring the neck of the bastard who ignored it :)

hota_mazi on July 14, 2022 | [–]

Sure, but the compiler doesn't care, and that's the problem.

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