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The title says Go generics are not bad, and then in less than a page this guy only compared one use case with Java's generics.

I'd expect a CS professor to be able to add a little more rigor in a blog post but I guess everyone is losing patience to read and write these days, even for the supposedly erudite.



This is his blog, he can write whatever he wants. It is not a peer reviewed paper or even arXiv.

Someone submitted and people liked it, and it ends up in HN front page.

All I am saying, please don't put pressure on random blog writers. You can criticize the content without saying "CS professor can be more rigor".


I only expected a CS professor to discover some of issues listed here:

https://go101.org/generics/888-the-status-quo-of-go-custom-g...

I mean, my cousin still in high school can do better than that...


If someone doesn't know how to address an audience you can hardly blame the audience for not responding. Academic papers are written to further academic careers. Their audience is not developers, but other people who are also not developers.

Of course there is going to be an impedance mismatch. What makes people important, effective and useful isn't what silly snobbery they use to put other people down, but whether they can effectively communicate their ideas to the audience.




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