My stance is adversarial because Go has wasted an enormous amount of people's time. Not having generics was pitched as a feature, and they spent a lot of effort

My stance is adversarial because Go has wasted an enormous amount of people's time. Not having generics was pitched as a feature, and they spent a lot of effort bragging about how fast compiles were without mentioning that this was because their optimizer was pitiful rather than some great property of the language design. They ignored just about every major development in programming language research in decades and rereleased something they'd already built before, just laundered under Google brand this time to ensure popularity. The value of generics is obvious if you ever write your own container. Go had pre-Java-1.4 level type safety for any container not specially blessed by the creators. Prior art on how to do them without significant compile time cost was already established by Java, not even some obscure academic language. Go was dumb from the start.