> it all feels half baked and too conservative to me
Your gut is wrong. These proposals have been in development for years. The author of the generics proposal has been thinking about the problem for nearly a decade.
Your gut is wrong. These proposals have been in development for years. The author of the generics proposal has been thinking about the problem for nearly a decade.
They're C heads, trying to build a simplified C; at least they were, they sort of messed that up with garbage collection, wild west threading and using reflection for all the wrong reasons.
Sure, now the tone is different. But back in the days when the language was first released, they would make fun of anyone mentioning generics or exceptions.