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To this day, I still couldn't figure out why Go stays at the edge of being a great language, but lacks few very essential features for -to me- inexplicable reasons.

Look at all the work done on JavaScript to generate code from macros and how incompatible the libraries became (JSX, sweet.js, TypeScript and so on). If there's no standardization, I'm afraid, go may have the same destiny.

If anyone on the Go core team is reading this, I'd like you to consider adding proper macros to the language.



A more conservative approach to macros would also just be... generics.




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