When programming, we often need to write ‘generic’ functions where the exact data type is not important. For example, you might want to write a simple function that sums up numbers. Go lacked this notion until recently, but it was … Read more
Ian Lance Taylor12 April 2022 Introduction This is the blog post version of my talks at Google Open Source Live: [embedded content] and GopherCon 2021: [embedded content] The Go 1.18 release adds a major new language feature: support for generic … Read more
Go 1.18 is here, and with it, the first release of the long-awaited implementation of Generics is finally ready for production usage. Generics are a frequently requested feature that has been highly contentious throughout the Go community. On the one … Read more
This document describes the implementation of generics via dictionaries and gcshape stenciling in Go 1.18. It provides more concrete and up-to-date information than described in the Gcshape design document The compiler implementation of generics (after typechecking) focuses mainly on creating … Read more
Mon, Dec 20, 2021 Go 1.18 is going to be released with generics support. Adding generics to Go was a multi-year effort and was a difficult one. Go type system is not a traditional type system and it was not … Read more