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Sydney Golang Meetup - Rob Pike - Go 2 Draft Specifications

Macquarie Group · 57.1K views · 2018-11-14 · 1:07:00

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Rob Pike presents the Go 2 draft specifications at the Sydney Golang Meetup, covering the Go 2 process and several proposals including generics. The Q&A contains a well-known exchange about the name of the language.

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Cited in Go threads for Pike's stance on generics and the Go 2 process, plus an amusing Q&A moment.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2018–2024

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twoodfin · 2018-11 · Recommendation

Rob Pike had a good talk on the Go 2 process and a few of the proposals that went up on YouTube a few days ago: [VIDEO]

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pjmlp · 2024-06 · Reference

Cox is not the founding team, and Rob Pike has publicly expressed he is not happy with the generics decision, but it wasn't his decision to take. "Sydney Golang Meetup - Rob Pike - Go 2 Draft Specifications" [VIDEO] (starts here) [VIDEO] (he expresses his opinion here)

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pjmlp · 2023-04 · Reference

Rob Pike explicitly stated that he really isn't into generics, [VIDEO] (starts here) [VIDEO] (he expresses his opinion here) We haven't made our little heads out of nowhere.

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