[threatofrain]

Dart's reason for existing is as a cross-platform GUI language via Flutter. It's not obvious that adding on some language ergonomics detracts or adds to that goal in a fundamental way.

Sometimes languages converge because of informal consensus that something is a good idea. Maybe Go adding generics is a good idea, even if it's a step in the direction of following trends.

Either way, most languages don't have syntax which is significantly challenging or easy (with exceptions like Rust), and it's the ecosystem which makes the language so productive. So whether or not Go added generics today or a decade ago, Go was still great anyway thanks to its standard library and ecosystem.

[DrScientist]

I don't know who is was - but somebody once said code is typically written once and read many times.

ie what matters is not the number of characters you have to type, but how easy the resulting code is to understand.

And here there are two factors - the verbosity and the conceptual load.

I think the mistake some language geeks forget is the importance of the conceptual load- the language surface area/complexity - and they tend to focus on brevity at the expense of conceptual complexity.