>Generics in c++, c#, scala, java They're not all the same though are they. C++/CLI had both compile-time generics (templates) from C++, and run-time generics

>Generics in c++, c#, scala, java They're not all the same though are they. C++/CLI had both compile-time generics (templates) from C++, and run-time generics from the CLR. And they could be complementary at times. For compile-time generics, Dlang are a lot more sane that C++, having had the benefit of coming later, and dumping C compatability. Similarly, CLR (C#, ...) generics had the benefit of being designed having seen Java first, so IIRC they're baked into the CLR. CKR generics were derived from work done at MS Research Cambridge, and I seem to remember Don Syme (F# creator) being rather proud of them. Disclosure: I was contracting at MSR Cambridge back in 2007. Anyway, the golang designers will be aware of these implementations, so hopefully they'll come up with a nice design.