I am new to go, but to me, the language looks bigger than it needs to be. Why do slices and maps need to be part of the language and not just part of a standard library? I suppose the reason is special syntax, but having to learn that special syntax makes the language feel bigger.
They are part of the language, because they require generics to be implemented if you want to implement them in the standard library. Go didn’t use to have generics, so those constructs were hacked into the core language.
I see. That makes sense. So maybe it is generics that are so fundamental that they need to be part of any language. Seems that Java, C#, and Go have all learned this lesson.
