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badrequest on June 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Next Step for Generics

They've reworked the draft, written a generics-capable type checker, a translator tool that lets you use the draft in the current version of Go, and published a generics-capable version of the playground. How is none of that substantial?

djur on June 17, 2020 [–]

The Featherweight Go paper also just recently came out, which is an important step:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.11710

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