[Gibbon1]

I think generics in C# are really well executed and solve a lot of problems in C#'s problem domain.

I do think you're on the right track that go's designers are pushing back hard on what they see as feature abuse in C++ and Java. C++ abuses templates and has dozens of ways to do anything that also don't interact with each other well. Java abuses inheritance, abstractions, and OOP.

go uses generics under the hood, probably the designers fear that generic's will also get abused if released into the wild. On the other hand I've never heard anyone bitch about well designed generics in other languages. Which is a tell since people will bitch about anything and everything.

[latronic_notron]

> I do think you're on the right track that go's designers are pushing back hard on what they see as feature abuse in C++ and Java

Now that you mention it, I can't really blame them!

> On the other hand I've never heard anyone bitch about well designed generics in other languages. Which is a tell since people will bitch about anything and everything.

That's my opinion as well. Generics are quite pleasant, simple and a great tool to have when they're well designed.