The anti-generics folks in the Go community are pretty prevalent still--meanwhile the Go community frequently lauds Go's strong type system. I suppose it's poss

The anti-generics folks in the Go community are pretty prevalent still--meanwhile the Go community frequently lauds Go's strong type system. I suppose it's possible that these aren't the same people, but it seems more likely to me that many Go users don't know the difference between strong types and static types, and think that all static types are strong types. Without generics, Go does not have a strong type system. It has a type system that verifies just enough to force you to work around it to do things that require generics, meaning that you don't get the benefits of verification because you've worked around it. You get the development speed of a statically-typed language with the type guarantees of a weakly-typed language: the worst of both worlds.