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by gnuvince 3898 days ago
A few years ago, Andrei Alexandrescu showed that the dmd compiler was actually faster than the gc compiler, and D supports templates. Recently, with 1.5, Go has shown that it is ready to take a hit on compile-time speeds. I don't think the argument of compilation speed holds for generics. To me it sounds much more like a culture thing: generics, for better of for worse, add an extra thing to think about and I think that the Go authors and many Go developers are just not interested.