[xyzzy_plugh]

It's been a legit language for years. Frankly I've enjoyed the lack of generics acting as a filter function for astronaut engineering.

I don't want to read through a heavily templated, generic code base when concrete, simple types will do. Go is so easy to read and reason about that I'm genuinely afraid of any change which could affect that.

The best advertisement for avoiding generics in Go despite their availability is the fact that they won't appear in the standard library for some time, and that the language maintainers believe it will take years to understand how to use them appropriately.