>Have you ever seen someone write something to the effect of “I would use Go, but I need generics”? Perhaps we can infer from this that many of the people who a

>Have you ever seen someone write something to the effect of “I would use Go, but I need generics”? Perhaps we can infer from this that many of the people who are pining after generics in Go are not, in fact, Go users. This is the sort non-adhominem adhominem attack that makes these debates so tedious. Obviously, someone deciding not to use Go for lack of generics after giving it a serious try would end up not being a Go user. Does that invalidate their opinion? The logic of this argument is strikingly cult-like. Any criticism coming from non-adherents is automatically disregarded on the basis of it coming from non-adherents.