Generics introduce complexity. That’s pretty undeniable. There are also cases where generics provide much better solutions to problems. That is also undeniable.

Generics introduce complexity. That’s pretty undeniable. There are also cases where generics provide much better solutions to problems. That is also undeniable. As someone who’s working in a Go codebase at work, I’m happy they added generics, especially in the way they did. It’s a pretty minimal subset of generic functionality. I will apply it in certain cases, mostly to reusable code. I think it’s a big win overall though, without introducing too much complexity to the language.