[h4x0r12345]

Generics (and other abstractions) are not the root cause. Go was a pragmatic defence against mediocre developers. The majority of developers are mediocre by definition, and will abuse _any_ abstractions to create Rube Goldberg contraptions and monstrosities.

[pjmlp]

20 years ago those mediocre programmers were using Visual Basic and Java, so look for the past to see where future goes.