Functional programming with generics? (Go Time #249)
We did an episode on functional programming in Go with Aaron Schlesinger back in 2019... But that was before generics were a thing. Let’s revisit the topic and discuss the pros and cons now that we have generics. What's changed? What hasn't?
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- 0:00 Opener
- 0:57 Sponsor: Sourcegraph
- 2:40 Intro
- 3:23 Welcoming Aaron
- 4:30 Setting the stage
- 6:39 FP recap before generics
- 16:09 FP libraries adopting generics
- 20:58 Sponsor: Honeycomb
- 22:39 Adopting generics slowly
- 25:14 Just because you can doesn't mean you should
- 34:58 Is Go still missing FP things?
- 39:43 Sponsor: Ship It!
- 41:12 One great FP pattern
- 44:48 Why Aaron went back to school
- 47:31 Unpopular Opinions!
- 48:14 Aaron's unpop
- 50:21 Time to go!
- 50:47 Outro + clip from JS Party #163
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