Comment by 🚀 mk270
Re: "No, you can't build Optional[T] or Maybe[T] with Go"
It is adorable that the misunderstandings of statically type-checking sometimes uttered by proponents of dynamically type-checked languages can be reproduced in statically type-checked languages like Go.
2024-10-25 · 2 years ago
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No, you can't build Optional[T] or Maybe[T] with Go — From time to time, someone shows up on Mastodon, in /r/golang, or on the Gophers Slack to show how they implemented optional values like you see in Haskell, OCaml, TypeScript, or Rust in Go. All of these approaches have one thing in common: they're not really Optional[T] or Maybe[T]. They look like it on the surface: there are generics involved, they may have a "is this valid?" boolean flag field, the name is right, etc... What all of...