[weberc2]

> you can only chuckle at HN comments arguing about Python vs Node as if that’s the crux of a new business

I definitely relate to this. I use Go a fair amount, and any conversation about Go on /r/programming invites a whole bunch of "every product built on a language without generics is doomed to fail". While generics would be a nice feature to my mind, I like Go for the tooling and the ecosystem, which are still an insignificant contribution to the success of a commercial product, but still many times more significant than the type system (and I'm a fan of type systems too).

[chosenbreed]

Interesting...the simplicity of the language appeals to me. If the tooling and ecosysstem is as great as you say it is I'm in ;-)

[geodel]

To add, we mostly use pre generics Java at work. The product was built around 2003-2005 and is very successful inside company. It is also most reliable among dozen on or so other enterprise project in our group. So this obsession with Generics or other language feature is by people who are less interested in product and its success.