On: Go generics are not bad

[phlakaton]

At least in the case of PLT Scheme, I recall a conference where there was open hostility to the notion that their academic language might (horrors!) become widely adopted.

[vkazanov → phlakaton]

And understandably so!

Wide adoption means certain academy-hostile rules: backwards compatibility, a lot of user pressure towards certain directions, etc. Academics need freedom, and adoption is not about freedom.

[phlakaton → vkazanov]

Haskell seems to have muddled through catering to both, though! Not sure whether they see Racket as still in that researchy space.