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On generics in Go #generics

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 22:14:00 +0000

By Ian Lance Taylor. Go should support some form of generic programming. Generic programming enables the representation of algorithms and data structures in a generic form, with concrete elements of the code (such as types) factored out. It means the ability to express algorithms with minimal assumptions about data structures, and vice-versa 12 points posted by kenny

Go experience report: the append function #generics #append #go2

Tue, 18 Jul 2017 06:14:00 +0000

Ian Lance Taylor talks about adding the append function. When the Go language was first publicly released it contained a package named container/vector. The type vector.Vector was a name for the type []interface{}. Vector supported methods like Len, Cap, At, Set, Insert, Delete, Push, Pop, and several more. You can see the source code at on Github. An interesting aspect of the package is that string and int versions of Vector were automatically generated by copying the file vector.go with edits applied by gofmt -r.

10 points posted by kenny

Dealing with the lack of Generics in Go #generics

Fri, 29 Jul 2016 13:15:00 +0000

7 points posted by kenny

Ian Lance Taylor discusses the Go Generics draft on golang nuts #generics

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 22:59:00 +0000

I thought this was an interesting discussion about the difficulties with the current draft, and other solutions proposed. 6 points posted by tomf

GenX: Generics For Go, Yet Again. #generics #go2

Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:53:00 +0000

A slightly more powerful generic code generator with a very simple interface.

Features:

* It can be *easily* used with `go generate`, from the command line or as a library.
* `cmd/genx` Uses local files, packages, and optionally uses `go get` (with the `-get` flag) if the remote package doesn't exist.
* You can rewrite, remove and change pretty much everything.
* Allows you to merge a package of multiple files into a single one.
* *Safely* remove functions and struct fields.
* Automatically passes all code through `x/tools/imports` (aka `goimports`).
* If you intend on generating files in the same package, you may add `// +build genx` to your template(s).
* Transparently handles [genny](https://github.com/cheekybits/genny)'s `generic.Type`.
* Supports a few [seeds](https://github.com/OneOfOne/genx/tree/master/seeds/).
* Adds build tags based on the types you pass, so you can target specifc types (ex: `// +build genx_t_string` or `// +build genx_vt_builtin` )
* Automatically handles nil returns, will return the zero value of the type.
* Doesn't need modifying the source package if there's only one type involved.

4 points posted by OneOfOne

Summary of Go generics discussions #generics

Thu, 19 Nov 2015 08:55:00 +0000

3 points posted by kenny

Summary of Go Generics Discussions #generics

Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:08:00 +0000

3 points posted by kenny