The core Go team has been working on generics since the pre-1.0 days and have submitted many different generics proposals over the years to reflect that. They a

The core Go team has been working on generics since the pre-1.0 days and have submitted many different generics proposals over the years to reflect that. They all, until the latest one, failed for one reason or another, but shared property of them all was being created by those who were not experts in the domain. It is why the latest incarnation brought in an external consultant to help guide the team in the right direction. There was clearly always interest from the project itself. There may have been some random naysayers on the internet who act like they are opposed, but you'll find people acting every way imaginable on the internet. I really doubt anyone actually refrained from working on the project because an internet troll wrote something silly.