Lots of small things today.

History

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. I love reading about how software came to be the way they are today.

Before we can talk about where generics are going, we first have to talk about where they are, and how they got there.

https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/erasure.html

Go Errors

Error handling is still jacked in Go 1.16. That is, the formatting change is still not present. Why is this a problem? There are two use cases for errors. Error as values, which can be inspected programatically, and error printing, which is not meant for programmatic consumption.