Extremely cursed.

[ratsnakegames@mastodon.social]

@jjacobsson the moral arc of the universe bends towards every programming language having generics

[realestninja@social.linux.pizza]

@jjacobsson made my day

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@jjacobsson can we have this text in the alt so we can boost it? thanks!

[aliengasmask@mas.to]

@jjacobsson ive boosted but im lowkey hoping this is just a joke

[navi@catcatnya.com]

@jjacobsson (also, Go has generics now)

[virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca]

@jjacobsson
Isn't all computation, at its most basic, just symbol manipulation?

[reiddragon@fedi.catto.garden]

@jjacobsson Go developers try not to do the most horrific hacks challenge

[ohmrun@indieweb.social]

@jjacobsson
The second edition of Template Go will be available shortly, with a wallabat on the front.

(fyi someone did do a generics like that at one point)

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@lritter @jjacobsson indeed, I love it

[benjamineskola@hachyderm.io]

@amy @jjacobsson I suspect the reason is that those are classified as punctuation whereas Go requires that identifiers are not punctuation — so the ones they used are actually non-Latin letters that happen to look like Latin punctuation.