[zellyn]

> The reality is that every modern statically typed language except Go has generics, and they all implemented them very well. The ML languages and Ada were already doing it in the 80s, and OCaml and Eiffel managed to combine generics and polymorphism back in the 90s.

> It seems to me that when originally designing Go, Pike, Griesemer and Thompson just didn't think generics are worthwhile enough for the effort it takes to properly research them.

Are you arguing that it's easy, and they just haven't done it? Or are you arguing that it wasn't important enough at first, and so the implementation developed in directions that preclude straightforward implementations now? I can believe the latter, but after reading the multiple, detailed proposals from Ian Lance Taylor, I don't believe the former.