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> Go tries to be non-magical, and sadly that can take much of the whimsy out of programming.

That's a weird thing to say seeing that Go very much is magical... Slices/arrays are magical and so are maps, channels and channel operators, the make() function and a whole bunch of other features.

I think your understanding is filpped. Generics are not a way to add magic, they remove magic. That's the whole point. Unfortunatelly, that which one doesn't understand may seem like magic to them even though it's not.

For example, compare a channel implementation in Go and Rust. In Go, the whole thing is pretty much magic. In Rust, it's just another struct that the compiler treats in no special way. Getting familiar with the magic of Go channels is only good for working with Go channels, the knowledge is not applicable for any other part of the language nor other languages. Learning generics on the other hand gives you better understanding of numerous features in multiple languages.