I tend to find that Rust's syntax warts are primarily in function headers (primarily due to lifetimes), and less so in the bodies. > Regarding your type proble

I tend to find that Rust's syntax warts are primarily in function headers (primarily due to lifetimes), and less so in the bodies. > Regarding your type problem I find very few cases where I need an empty interface (mainly container types). I've run into the issue with quite a few "generic" libraries, since Go doesn't have a generics system. For example, https://github.com/manyminds/api2go https://github.com/manyminds/api2go requires a few of them in common cases. My alternative is writing the same code over and over, and hoping that I've not missed something in one instance of it.