I mostly agree with you, but I there could be an argument being made for C++- the generics there are done through templating, and I've seen people froth at the

I mostly agree with you, but I there could be an argument being made for C++- the generics there are done through templating, and I've seen people froth at the mouth about the complexity of C++'s template metaprogramming. I agree though with your initial reaction to Go and generics- it seems strange to argue not to include generics due to complexity when the alternative is either type assertions from interface{} types, code generation through some sort of [preprocessor](https://github.com/cheekybits/genny https://github.com/cheekybits/genny), or copy-pasting code. All of these are more complex than a simple generics implementaton! Golang could even include some sort of generics less complex than Java since it wouldn't have to worry about co vs contra variant types, and Java's generics aren't that hard to work with.