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		uriel on Oct 12, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Dart is not the language of the future. One of the reasons Go still doesn't have generics is reluctance to 'bolt them on', and that the current language works surprisingly well without them. Of course that wont't stop people who have not written any Go code from claiming Go is worthless without them.

bad_user on Oct 12, 2011 [–]

That's a cheap shot. Here's the opinion of Andrei Alexandrescu:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kikut/think_in_...

uriel on Oct 13, 2011 | [–]

Yes, precisely the opinion of somebody that has not written anything in Go.

Not to mention somebody quite biased given that Go has been way more successful in being used to build actual systems than Alexandrescu's D2.

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