[annywhey]

In agreement. IMHO generics basically have one place where they work well: abstract containers. Your queues, linked lists, what-have-you can benefit.

But most other data structures? Nope. Too much of the algorithm depends on the primitive type.

And that makes generics a nice boon for computer scientists and certain library authors, but of middling benefit for day-to-day coding. If the container works, you can copy-paste-modify your way to the types you want, or automate the same in a macro or code generator. It's not beautiful but it doesn't have to be.

[int_19h]

Having coded C# for many years now, generics are used for a lot more than just containers. There's a great many things that can be generalized. Just look at any large C# project on GitHub.

[kungito]

"Generics" (which should allow higher kinded types) work well with monads, who containers are among many others.