For a year or so, I used to make minor contributions to the Go programming language codebase, back before it hit 1.0. That certainly by no means makes me an ex

For a year or so, I used to make minor contributions to the Go programming language codebase, back before it hit 1.0. That certainly by no means makes me an expert on it, nor do I claim to be someone of the caliber of Russ Cox or Rob Pike, but I did do a lot of reading on golang-dev and golang-nuts, before the language was settled on 1.0. There were a lot of discussions on generics, and the language authors and contributors were certainly open to ideas and indeed did their own fair share of research. For example, see https://research.swtch.com/generic https://research.swtch.com/generic from 2009. Indeed, the FAQ entry itself on Generics states 'Generics may well be added at some point. We don't feel an urgency for them, although we understand some programmers do.', and looking at the blame log, that's from 2010 or earlier, and it's stuck to this day. So, from everything I can see, the creators themselves are certainly open to the concept - I don't see any "you don't need generics" coming from that side.