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sigzero on April 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go 1.3 beta 1 released

> all of them will stay in a niche <

C# has had generics since 2.0, so ALL is a bad choice of words there.

pjmlp on April 23, 2014 [–]

Actually C# already had generics even before the 1.0 .NET release, but they weren't considered stable enough for a 1.0 release and priority was given to other parts of the .NET.

One of many posts about generics history in .NET:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2011/03/15/net-c-gener...

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