[aptenoforst]

If anything generics will make go code simpler. No more copy pasting everywhere and the possibility of making useful collection methods like map, filter and reduce.

[barsonme]

More concise, yes. Simpler? Maybe[0].

And for the record, I'm mostly in favor of adding generics to Go.

[0]: https://talks.golang.org/2015/simplicity-is-complicated.slid...

[sascha_sl]

It also depends on your use case. Kubernetes and its pile of code generators will be much much simpler.