While it was the official position was not passive aggressive. There has been passive aggressiveness coming from the team over it. One of the reasons many peo

While it was the official position was not passive aggressive. There has been passive aggressiveness coming from the team over it. One of the reasons many people wanted generics so that they could support map/filter/reduce in a type safe manner. This is the response we got from Rob Pike https://github.com/robpike/filter https://github.com/robpike/filter For the longest time the answer about generics was "There are no plans for generics. I said we're going to leave the language; we're done" And the people who have been advocating for generics understand that have downsides. That trade of different forms and placement of complexity (the lack of generics creates complex code in duplicate code for write arounds).