Is There a Language Change That Could Be Made?

Panelist: I see type assertions constantly in the code without that okay check and just panics waiting to happen. Why does that not force you if it's okay or not to check the okay because the alternative is a panic, right? And do you think that generics is going to be a nice use case for that instead of having to cast every time that you will have to handle generic set of data or something?" "I don't even think they're documented. You just kind of know that they're there and none of us mere mortals can add them," he adds.

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