Ask HN: Was it worth it for Go to add generics

• hashmap

  8 1,713 2.9 Go

  A Golang lock-free thread-safe HashMap optimized for fastest read access.

• generics

  2 308 0.0
  

There used to be a troll repo on Facebook's GitHub org about Go generics, which is now archived, so ... maybe?

https://github.com/facebookarchive/generics

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• go

  2,067 119,397 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

* Libraries in general being “Just another git repo”, many haven’t been updated to use Go modules. Because Go doesn’t have a good central repository for go libraries, I don’t have good numbers on this.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48918

• go-generics-the-hard-way

  14 1,824 0.0 Go

  A hands-on approach to getting started with Go generics.

You don't actually have to instantiate the type for a receiver function (i.e., method). There's too much missing from your code for me to understand which direction you're going but you'll likely have to use a constraint for structs which is explained here: https://github.com/akutz/go-generics-the-hard-way/blob/main/...

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