If people are still writing it by hand each time, it's a problem with tooling, specifically dependency management. If it's that much of a pain to distribute a l

If people are still writing it by hand each time, it's a problem with tooling, specifically dependency management. If it's that much of a pain to distribute a library, then people are going to write it themselves. That's not a reason not to include generics, however. It's an entirely different problem.