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amelius on Dec 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'

> Some devs spent a whole week doing nothing other than removing those commented out generic type declarations once Java finally got generics!

Fast-forwarding to today, could Co-pilot have saved them the trouble?

vlang1dot0 on Dec 14, 2021 | [–]

I'm pretty sure sed could have saved them the trouble.

tjalfi on Dec 15, 2021 | [–]

I'm not sure about Copilot but IntelliJ IDEA's structural search and replace[0] is well suited to this task.

[0] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/structural-search-and-re...

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