[voidlogic]

>>Any plans to add templates/a form of generic programming?

The Go team is open to generics as soon as there is a proposal they feel fits right without performance penalties. Read: http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

>>Does the community care about that?

Yes, but most people in the Go community are OK waiting for the "right" solution.

>>How have people been working around that?

Generics are nice and convenient, but you can write anything/everything without generics. Just look at everything written in C. And C doesn't have interfaces like Go.

[coldtea]

>The Go team is open to generics as soon as there is a proposal they feel fits right without performance penalties.

Because using interface{} for the same tasks fits so much better and has so much better performance right?

Tons of languages have implemented Generics -- it's not rocket science since at least 2 decades.

If the Go team is not interesting in working on the thing, then I doubt they would be really evaluating any "proposal".

[voidlogic]

I think Generics are just low priority for the Go team. Maybe we will see them in Go 2.0

>>tons of languages have implemented Generics -- it's not rocket science since at least 2 decades.

Sure, but that doesn't mean there are not concerns about the way it is often implemented: http://research.swtch.com/generic