go2generics

A chunk of demos for Go generics design (based on type parameters and type sets).

Standard Package

Package `constraints`

See the official implementation here.

Package `slices`

See the official implementation here.

Package `maps`

See the official implementation here.

Package `container/set`

This package is from the following discussions:

golang/go#47331 proposal: container/set: new package to provide a generic set type (discussion)

See a possible implementation here.

Others (under discussion)

golang/go#47657 proposal: sync, sync/atomic: add PoolOf, MapOf, ValueOf
golang/go#47632 proposal: container/heap: add Heap, a heap backed by a slice
golang/go#47619 proposal: generic functions in the sort package

Further Examples

See folders in this repository.

Known Issues

References

Here are some documents to get familiar with the spirit of generics:

Changkun Ou. A Summary of Go Generics Research 2020.08. Last Updates: 2021.08.
Changkun Ou. Go 2 Generics: Type Parameters. https://changkun.de/s/go2generics/.

Licnese

BSD-2-Clause

Copyright © 2020-2021 Changkun Ou