I believe I watched a talk from Rob Pike a few years ago where he mentioned that Go didn't have generics, not because they didn't want generics, but because the

I believe I watched a talk from Rob Pike a few years ago where he mentioned that Go didn't have generics, not because they didn't want generics, but because they wanted a Go-like way of doing them, and wanted to spend a lot of time making sure they were done right. I'm paraphrasing and I wish I had a source for you but I'm pretty confident I didn't make that up.