[papaf]

Generics in C++ really damage the readability of the code sometimes, maybe the go devs have found a better way.

The culture might help. I think generics in Java are not overused -- partly because they are not so powerful and partly because Java, similar to Go, did not have generics for a long time.

[randomdata]

C++ also went a long time without generics, and even when support started to appear it was a separate code generation step, requiring even more time before we saw first-class compiler support.

Powerful, though.