To me, the language really is so great. I've discussed this with a friend, but in my 4.5 yrs of using it in production environments I've never found myself hel

To me, the language really is so great. I've discussed this with a friend, but in my 4.5 yrs of using it in production environments I've never found myself held back by the lack of generics. The apps I write need to be high availability, doing 1k req/sec on avg on one server, and go has never been the bottleneck. I come from originally a PHP background, and for me to do a fraction of what Go can do would require me to go in and mess with php config files and spin up more servers in order to get the performance I need, and with Go that's just not the case.