Just getting back into Go (was Clojure), missing generics were annoying indeed. Though doing things with strings in source isn't fundamentally different from ty

Just getting back into Go (was Clojure), missing generics were annoying indeed. Though doing things with strings in source isn't fundamentally different from type erasure in the JVM (can wiki the term). Ie. Generics in Java are strings in the source code that don't make it through compilation either, Java just has explicit syntax for it and IIRC C++ templates generate a collection class for each type.