Goodbye core types - Hello Go as we know and love it!

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<h1>Goodbye core types - Hello Go as we know and love it!</h1>
  
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  Robert Griesemer<br>
  26 March 2025
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  <p>The Go 1.18 release introduced generics and with that a number of new features, including type parameters, type constraints, and new concepts such as type sets.

It also introduced the notion of a core type.
While the former provide concrete new functionality, a core type is an abstract construct that was introduced
for expediency and to simplify dealing with generic operands (operands whose types are type parameters).
In the Go compiler, code that in the past relied on the underlying type of an operand,
now instead had to call a function computing the operand’s core type.
In the…

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