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		dullgiulio on Nov 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go 2, here we come void * and interface{} are not going away when generics come. Try searching for "Object" or "<?>" in some Java code...

Filligree on Nov 30, 2018 [–]

Which is why Go 1's type system was a bad decision. interface{} should have never existed in the first place.

At least it'll definitely get rarer.

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