[mseepgood]

> Generics done like this have no type safety, which is the central reason for Go.

Type safety is not the central reason for Go.

[candiodari]

I couldn't find the initial announcement, but here is one of the very first presentations by Rob Pike:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/100428-pike-s...

"The target

Go aims to combine the safety and performance of a statically typed compiled language with the expressiveness and convenience of a dynamically typed interpreted language."