[weberc2]

To be clear I prefer generics. The cases for why other Go developers don't want generics seem to mostly fall on "it will change the language / encourage people to write stupidly complex code" to "it's too hard to implement". The first one is valid--Go's constraints give it this nice property that there is (more or less) one obvious way to write most programs, and that will go away with generics; however, I think that cost is worth the gain. The other criticism seems like a cop-out; the Go team has far and away more than enough talent to slap generics onto the language.