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If being able to get things out the door anyway is the standard for "well, guess this language is nice enough!", there goes any argument ...

If being able to get things out the door anyway is the standard for "well, guess this language is nice enough!", there goes any argument against JavaScript, or for that matter Go over Java. I'm one of the people who is currently making a working solution in Go. Are generics the equivalent of missing wheels? Probably not, but I am absolutely finding it a present and persistent pain point that I don't have something like that or even just overloaded function/method signatures, and instead have to frequently repeat a lot of rewritten code scattered full of lots and lots of if/else cases. Life could be worse. But the fact that people are shipping doesn't mean it's a language in which people aren't finding a specific missing features to be a problem.

Posted by wwweston on Jan 30, 2015, 12:26 AM

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If being able to get things out the door anyway is the standard for "well, guess this language is nice enough!", there goes any argument ...

wwwestonJan 30, 2015, 12:26 AM

If being able to get things out the door anyway is the standard for "well, guess this language is nice enough!", there goes any argument against JavaScript, or for that matter Go over Java. I'm one of the people who is currently making a working solution in Go. Are generics the equivalent of missing wheels? Probably not, but I am absolutely finding it a present and persistent pain point that I don't have something like that or even just overloaded function/method signatures, and instead have to frequently repeat a lot of rewritten code scattered full of lots and lots of if/else cases. Life could be worse. But the fact that people are shipping doesn't mean it's a language in which people aren't finding a specific missing features to be a problem.

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