Disappointed by the type system of your favorite l...

# random

[cedric]

Disappointed by the type system of your favorite language? Things could be worse:

http://i.imgur.com/LwdWaAl.jpg▾

[mg6maciej]

This is the best hack to get generics in Go!

[cedric]

Someone on the Go team once said they think generating source code to emulate generics is good design

[mg6maciej]

Generating code often seems like a good idea. You wouldn't expect Kotlin devs write all the extensions for List, Set, etc... by hand.

[mg6maciej]

// NOTE THIS FILE IS AUTO-GENERATED by the GenerateStandardLib.kt

[cedric]

“Generating code” without any additional context is hard to judge. There are good and bad reasons to do that.

[cedric]

We certainly generate a lot of code on the JVM with the rise of annotation processors, but I’d argue these use cases make more sense than generating code to emulate the lack of generics

[cedric]

I don’t know if it’s still the case but back in my C++ days, I remember the linker (I think) generated all versions of templates for various data types, which led to huge object files.

[cedric]

.o files, though, not source

[dh44t]

most of funKTionale is generated

[ilya.gorbunov]

I'd prefer not to generate all those functions if the type system allowed me not to do it.

[groostav]

this is how Go++ is born