[pcwalton]

I'm not asking for examples of bad interactions between C++ templates and other features of C++--there are tons of those. I'm asking for examples of languages in which implementing simple generics was a bad idea in retrospect.

(I don't think there are any such examples, because simple ML-style generics yield a lot of power for negligible drawback, and I hope that future versions of Go add them.)

[pjmlp]

I won't happen, there was this presentation some time ago that the language design was done and their focus was improving the runtime and tooling.

Hence why I decided to stop arguing about Go's lack of generics and rather advocate it for those that search for a C + GC with improved type safety.

For the rest of us there are better options.