[Beltalowda]

> It was endless arguments from Go users that generics aren't needed

There was (and still is) a small minority of Go users that insist generics are bad, but in my observation it's nowhere near the majority view. As a concrete datapoint, the GitHub issue on this[1] has 2k upvotes and 150 downvotes. A sizeable minority, but a minority nonetheless.

As is often the case, "the Go community" is far from heterogeneous, and it's hard to really get an idea what "the average Go programmer" thinks, and easy to criticise the most extreme elements.

Certainly for the Go team itself the position was always that 1) generics are useful, but 2) we're not quite sure how to best implement them. Some people disagree with that viewpoint too, which is fair enough, but it's really quite a different one.

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292