GothamGo 2017: Closures are the Generics of Go by Jon Bodner

Jon Bodner

Jon Bodner is part of the Technology Fellows Program at Capital One, currently working on a fork of the LGTM project that will be open sourced soon. Jon's team is helping to transform Capital One through introduction and integration of new technologies, working to shorten release cycles, and generally pushing forward an "open source first" culture.

Jon is a software engineer, lead developer, and architect and enjoys presenting and discussing open source, technology trends, and the future of software engineering. Over the past 20 years, Jon has worked in just about every corner of the software industry including on-line commerce, education, finance, government, healthcare, and internet infrastructure.
Closures are the Generics of Go

Generics are probably the most contentious topic in Go community. Every other modern typed language has them. The recently announced Go 2.0 will probably adopt them. In the meantime, you can get most of the functionality of generics today by taking advantage of a feature that Go does have: closures.

Music courtesy of Brett Buddin https://buddin.us (from modular audio synthesizers he's built in Go!) Thanks Brett!

Gopher characters are based on the Go mascot designed by Renée French and copyrighted under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...). Thanks Renée!

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