Bjarne Stroustrup is on a mission to simplify generic programming. In a recently published paper titled “Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming,” Stroustrup makes the case for concepts as ...

Table stakes for a general purpose language is some kind of interop story for c. It’s highly unlikely anyone is going to write a BLAS from scratch in your new language, for example.

Go developers still cite generics as the top missing feature of the popular Go programming language. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer March 16, 2021 at 5:55 a.m. PT ...

With Go 1.18, generics are now a part of the Go language, implemented by way of using interfaces to define groups of types. Not only do Go programmers have relatively little new syntax or behavior ...

One argument that has been made in favor of porting from COBOL to a generic programming language is ‘ease of maintenance’, pointing out that COBOL is supposedly very hard to read and write and ...