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0 pointsjussij6y ago0 comments

> It would effectively create a new language and in turn to a new ecosystem.

And that new language would be Go++ (i.e. Go with generics) and what would be wrong with that?

Consider how C++ started.

It was nothing more than a preprocessor extension to the C language called C with classes.

There is nothing stopping that Go++ turning into the Go equivalent of C++.

So back to the previous OPs question, what's stopping someone from forking it?

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pjmlp6y ago

Because after his experience being forced to drop into BCPL from Simula, Bjarne sweared not to do it ever again.

So when tasked to write his distributed network application in C at Bell Labs, his first step was to build something that would bring his Simula back, instead of bare bones C.

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