Yeah, I can't count the times I heard some variation of "It's literally impossible to ship software without generics" from /r/programming alone. The OP's ideali

Yeah, I can't count the times I heard some variation of "It's literally impossible to ship software without generics" from /r/programming alone. The OP's idealism/pragmatism comment is particularly misguided, since Go consistently favors pragmatism over idealism and in fact that was why Go has held off for so long on adding generics (idealism would have added them from day 1, consequences be damned).