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moogly on Aug 2, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Russ Cox is stepping down as the Go tech lead

> almost zero drama

Hm. Wasn't (the lack of) generics pretty drama filled? Especially the way they fought against it for so long.

quectophoton on Aug 2, 2024 [–]

s/fought against it/rejected superficial proposals that were mostly about syntax bikeshedding and didn't include enough research on how the proposal would play along with the rest of the language and ecosystem/

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