> such as `go generate`--which already allow you to implement a crappy version of generics The design document for "go generate" listed many motivating use cas

> such as `go generate`--which already allow you to implement a crappy version of generics The design document for "go generate" listed many motivating use cases, and not one of them was generics. The raison d'être for "go generate" is not to simulate generics. Some people just saw the character sequence "gener..." and made it about generics.