[LaPingvino]

Generics were considered at the very release. Go just focuses on getting it right. And I love it for it, because to this day Go is the only language that got OOP right, and now Generics.

Go is a language made for the human factor.

Go generate by the way is mostly NOT used for generics. Check for example Vugu, which compiles UI documents to pure Go code. Go generate is made to incorporate any random external tool without making it complicated for the humans using it. And it makes sense because the goal was not single pass compilation, it was single pass parsing, which is exactly WHY Go generate is useful. It is still true to the exact way this has been defined. Go is simple in ways that matter.