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Agreed, but that is a technical problem that can (and should) be solved. For example, "C" and "C++" are even more unfriendly terms for search engines, yet Google handles them just …

> Only everybody who asks for generics knows that, and still wants them to go through and pay the price. And those people are outnumbered by people who are comfortable and productive with the curr…

If you follow the history of that particular issue, you'll see that the Go team's (official) view has always been that there are tradeoffs involved, and that none of the existing proposals f…

Only tangentially related, but this article reminded me of Edward Kmett's presentation from YOW! 2014: https://yow.eventer.com/yow-2014-1222/stop-treading-water-le... (~40mi…

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13085952

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9098-haskell-in-the-lar... Requires registration.…

Similarly, UTF-8 was designed on a diner placemat. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt …

For those who haven't seen it, there is a wonderful talk by Jason Turner about writing a simple Pong clone for the Commodore 64 in modern C++: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBkN…