Fuzzy generics Several months of using 1.18 features

Speaker: Alexey Palazhchenko

Several months ago, a new project was started: FerretDB, an open-source alternative to MongoDB. It is a proxy between MongoDB clients/driver and PostgreSQL, developed in Go. Since the very first commit, it used a version of Go which soon will be released as Go 1.18. The two biggest reasons for that were first-class support for type parameters (generics) and fuzzing. In my talk, I will cover both of them: how they work in theory and our practice, how they were useful for us (spoiler: very useful), and what are their downsides and gotchas.