[RamiK]

Before Generics, the Garbage Collector needs to be sorted out since that's what dictates the optimizations and abstractions in the rest of the safe code in a very significant way. e.g. Simple scope issues like "Do I allocate this array now, or inside the for loop" were still a question of Go 1.1 vs. Go 1.2...

Then, once the GC is decided and realized, wouldn't you rather have Go self-compile so that the community could sprout experimental branches to test out different Generics approaches and designs? Especially since the Gophers themselves aren't too sure about the right approach here and want to get as much feedback as they can...

TL;DR: It seems to me that the current trajectory of focusing primarily on the GC and self-compiling is the right way to go.

[jksmith]

This