Yeah, Go has some really fantastic aspects around tooling and a good concurrency story, but it's otherwise such a huge step backwards. I can't fathom the reason

Yeah, Go has some really fantastic aspects around tooling and a good concurrency story, but it's otherwise such a huge step backwards. I can't fathom the reason for not having generics. It's such a simple, completely common-sense abstraction. Things like typeclasses or multimethods offer vastly more abstraction power. These are (a bit) more difficult to understand, but you certainly don't have to be a genius (take it from me). I can kind of get why a language targeted towards "average" programmers might want to omit these. But here's the thing: The less abstraction power a language has, the more complexity must be handled by the developer. This leads to things like Java Spring, which you do have to be a genius to understand.