Have you ever been able to confidently write Java for hours without executing it? I think exploiting J8 and generic types can help with that...

This is a (very) rare work-related entry. I mostly work on the compiler for a programming language named “Go”, and one of the problems we face is if and how we should add “generic…

This is a (very) rare work-related entry. I mostly work on the compiler for a programming language named “Go”, and one of the problems we face is if and how we should add “generic…

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@ianlancetaylor, @griesemer, and I are wondering about different possible plans for updating APIs that would have used generics but currently use interface{}, and we wanted to cast a wider net for ...

Don’t get me wrong — I like generics, and I’m excited to see what impact they will have on the Go language and its libraries. However, it…

The 1.18 release of the Go language is likely to include by far the biggest change to the language since its creation: parametric polymorphism, colloquially called generics. There has been much dis...