[gertef]

I'm sort of hoping someone forks Go to provide at least a few single-depth generics like Optional/Maybe, to match Map and Slice.

[rybosome]

If it had been done at the very beginning, I think it would have been wonderful...but given that legal, idiomatic nil is already out in the wild I think it's too late. Such a shame - in the example of error handling, returning an Option doesn't appreciably increase verbosity:

    _, err := potentiallyErroringOperation()

    // with idiomatic nil
    if err != nil {...}

    // with monadic Option
    if err.isDefined() {....}

EDIT: fix typo

[dragonwriter]

Someone's already provided a template processor for/in Go that provides generics.

https://github.com/droundy/gotgo