> I would much rather have powerful hygienic compile-time macros to generate code There's still a place for this, even in a Go with the proposed generics. The

> I would much rather have powerful hygienic compile-time macros to generate code There's still a place for this, even in a Go with the proposed generics. There's 3 main styles of generics, each with different speed/space trade-offs: * use interface{}, which runs slower and has no compile-time checking, but can be faster to code * use the proposed type-safe generics compilation, which generates compact code, but which require more detailed coding * use the hygienic compile-time macros, which run fast, but can generate lots of bloat when compiling There's a place for all three being available. So perhaps Go 2 will get macros one day !