To me, the fact that there are concepts such as generic containers (slices, maps) but that you aren't allowed to design your own is a concession that generics a

To me, the fact that there are concepts such as generic containers (slices, maps) but that you aren't allowed to design your own is a concession that generics are useful, necessary, and not too complicated for the language. It confuses me that people then defend the decision to exclude other forms of generics. I was very interested in learning and applying the language at one point, but the inability to make very basic abstractions and the horrific proliferation of either manual or generated boilerplate code made me decide to shelve it permanently, or at least until go 2.0 comes out with generics.