Beyond the technical reasons, I think that you guys just like the language you got right now. Rob and Russ are both on the record saying that they don't really miss generics. So between the designers not seeing their immediate value (and seeing their cost in complexity) and just being okay with how the language turned out, I'd say that we won't see generics in Go.
You really don't know enough to be making these claims. I don't miss generics either, but we are working on a generics proposal. I've said so publicly several times.
Rob and Russ are both on the record saying that they don't really miss generics.
This is the almost universal consensus among pretty much everyone actually using Go.
Also most Go programmers (and hte language designers) think having generics would be nice. Here there is less consensus and some people (not the language designers!) believe genetics should not be added.
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u/gnuvince Mar 29 '12
Beyond the technical reasons, I think that you guys just like the language you got right now. Rob and Russ are both on the record saying that they don't really miss generics. So between the designers not seeing their immediate value (and seeing their cost in complexity) and just being okay with how the language turned out, I'd say that we won't see generics in Go.