[int_19h]

But that's the thing - they ended up drawing that trade-off line in more or less the same spot as most other mainstream PLs with generics. I don't understand why it took so long to basically acknowledge that prevailing wisdom is correct.

[sudhirj]

A refusal to acknowledge that prevailing wisdom was correct is what got us Go in the first place. I think of the value of the project as being a re examination of every aspect of programming from first principles. Some decisions will change, some will be considered to already be optimal.