[twblalock]

I think you overestimate the number of people who care that much about Go. It's not very widely used.

It would also be a massive effort to add generics to it at this point, because of the design choices the team made early on.

[giovannibajo1]

Not sure what counts for "widely used", but it's now in the top20 TIOBE: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

[themartorana]

"It's not very widely used."

Um. Well ok, maybe but not likely, as pointed out by a sibling comment, but it is used by a large fraction of companies that deal with services on an enormous scale - Google (obvi), Dropbox, Cloudflare... here, better than copy/paste: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers

You're going to recognize an awful lot of those companies.

Edit: not sure if it counts, but the number of companies using software written in Go in mission-critical ops is enormous (see: Docker).

[zzzcpan]

> It would also be a massive effort to add generics to it at this point

Not really. The easiest approach would take like a day for PoC.

[twblalock]

What approach would that be?

[zzzcpan]

That would be meta/templating approach.