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		pxue on March 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The ecosystem of the Go programming language it's simple to write ONCE you understand and learn the idiomatic code. some people call not having native string/int/whatever sorting methods is "hard to write". some people think the verbose `if err != nil` every other line is also "hard to write" again, there is an upstart cost, which is to integrate yourself into the language community.

makapuf on March 22, 2021 [–]

Golang does have a few simple types sorting functions such as string and int https://golang.org/pkg/sort/#Strings. Now that generics will be out, could we even have generic sort functions ?

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