2 years ago

As we’ve https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-has-the-time-finally-come-for-generics-in-golang/ https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-gophers-dig-into-generics-go-2-0-and-gophercon-2018/ https://thenewstack.io/this-week-in-programming-go-approves-generics-long-at-last/ over the years, developers have been anticipating the addition of generics to Go for a long time now. In a blog post on his company’s blog, https://twitter.com/vmg, who works on performance for MySQL-compatible serverless database platform https://planetscale.com/, writes that https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-slower. I don’t think Generics in Go 1.18 are ready for widespread adoption.

GitHub launched Copilot into https://copilot.github.com/ last year, and since then Visual Studio 2022, which https://thenewstack.io/visual-studio-2022-and-net-6-finally-arrive/, has been the top requested IDE.

Perhaps, they ponder, we are moving into a time “where languages have found their respective niches and a level with their particular competition.”