I agree. The real problem is they're trying to add generics to Go and make Go 2 backwards-compatible with Go 1. Doing both generates the complexity, just like w

I agree. The real problem is they're trying to add generics to Go and make Go 2 backwards-compatible with Go 1. Doing both generates the complexity, just like with Java 5. Generics in a language are good, but Go will cross the line from simple to bloated as soon as these generics are added. To remain a simple language with generics, Go 2 would need to give up backwards compatibility with Go 1, something which the suits at Google would veto if any techies there actually tried it.