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0 pointsassbuttbuttass2y ago0 comments

Can you share some examples? I personally haven't found any excuses to use generics yet, so I'm curious where other people are finding them useful

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Here is an example in the standard library: https://pkg.go.dev/slices

I've used the slices package and I agree it's useful. I was wondering more about generics use in application code

Before the slices package you had to write those functions for all your types, it's much better now!

I also like using generics for API request/response code, ex: https://go.dev/play/p/OWf9eFmg1qF

With generics you don't need to return any/interface{} / type assert at runtime

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0 pointsassbuttbuttass2y ago0 comments

Can you share some examples? I personally haven't found any excuses to use generics yet, so I'm curious where other people are finding them useful

Here is an example in the standard library: https://pkg.go.dev/slices

I've used the slices package and I agree it's useful. I was wondering more about generics use in application code

Before the slices package you had to write those functions for all your types, it's much better now!

I also like using generics for API request/response code, ex: https://go.dev/play/p/OWf9eFmg1qF

With generics you don't need to return any/interface{} / type assert at runtime

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse