I'm not sure what you expected. With the exception of Ian Lance Taylor, the Go team has expressed skepticism (and, in the case of Rob Pike, outright disdain) ab

I'm not sure what you expected. With the exception of Ian Lance Taylor, the Go team has expressed skepticism (and, in the case of Rob Pike, outright disdain) about generics since day one. To anyone who has followed the Go development process at all, this proposal will not be a surprise. The previous proposal was also extremely conservative. Personally, I don't see any other way. Going full-blown generics in the style of Rust/Haskell/OCaml, for example, would drastically alter the language. This is closer in scope to, say, Modula-3.