---
title: "The Go team's next steps with generics"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 327
published_at: "2020-08-28"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/327"
---

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#327 — August 28, 2020 

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[Moving Forward with the Generics Design Draft](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/iAD0NBz3DYw/m/VcXSK55XAwAJ) — Unfortunately this discussion requires a Google login, but in short the Go team have decided to move forward with the proposed draft design for generics ([some background here](https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step)) with some changes, such as the use of square brackets and the `type` keyword before type parameters will be dropped. 

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[Creating Domain Specific Error Helpers with `errors.As`](https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2020/working-with-errors-as/) — _“Don’t let your end users be distracted by irrelevant warning messages. Handle errors properly by thinking their roles and domain within your application.”_ 

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[ultimate-go: One Dev's Notes On Working with Go](https://github.com/betty200744/ultimate-go) — A very large repo covering many aspects of Go, from syntax to concurrency to data structures and more. 

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[Making an Asteroids Game with Lorca/Webview and WebAssembly](https://maori.geek.nz/making-asteroids-game-with-golang-lorca-webview-and-wasm-9a8bed30cf72) — Brings together some interesting tools to create a retro ‘Asteroids’ clone that can be distributed as a desktop app. 

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