[AnimalMuppet]

> >Generics would not make our codebase significantly better, more maintainable, or easier to understand.

> Generics are literally a form of abstraction. You might as well be arguing that abstraction doesn't help.

You missed one word: "significantly". Sure, abstractions help. That wasn't the claim. The claim was that, in a million lines, the lack of that particular way of doing abstractions did not significantly hurt.

Would it have helped? Sure. Would it have helped enough to matter "very much"? No (by NateDad's standards, which may differ from yours).

67 implementations of sort.Interface? Sure, I don't like it, but in a million lines, you've got much bigger things to worry about.