[kodablah]

I feel the similar way, though I wouldn't be so brave to say I didn't ever use interface{}. I think we all work around slices and maps being the only generic containers and don't know we do. I think everyone will find that while they didn't need generics, they will help them when using utility libraries. Java 1.4 people thought the same.

I expect well-curated libraries to come about that will really simplify some otherwise difficult problems for people (e.g. task/object pooling). I'm even toying with a futures impl at https://github.com/cretz/fut, but I wouldn't use it in place of channels in most cases.

[horsemans]

Yes. It would be short-sighted to dismiss them out of hand, and it's possible that generics will provide a level of expressiveness and readability I haven't anticipated yet. I'm fairly bearish on it for now.