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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark@mastodon.social

9/25/2025, 12:48:50 AM

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today in "Rob Pike thinks you are literally too stupid and will personally make Go worse because of it" https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-12-20-collection-functions-in-go-1-23/

Similarly, the slices package contains no Filter() method, and it was explicitly rejected for being too complex. Rob Pike himself chimed in to strike down the suggestion.

> You can just use a for loop, which is more flexible in general. I am not being facetious; the filter operation tends to obscure allocation and overhead, and also tends to be overused. Although I may be in the minority, I do not believe this would be a wise addition to the standard library.

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