I think much of the enthusiasm for Go comes from the fact that as a *compiled language*, it's easy to use and learn, and has a modern standard library. What att

I think much of the enthusiasm for Go comes from the fact that as a *compiled language*, it's easy to use and learn, and has a modern standard library. What attracts most of the developers is that they can deploy a binary with reasonable performance. That's why you see many PHP and Ruby developers loving it. I don't think an interpreted language with Go's design choices would be as popular. Therefore, I don't think adding Generics is going to harm.