Certainly a better take than 'I don't like generics, it's somehow less complicated to downcast interface{} everywhere'. It was very interesting reading the just

Certainly a better take than 'I don't like generics, it's somehow less complicated to downcast interface{} everywhere'. It was very interesting reading the justification for not having generic methods, and how that clashed with my assumption of what generics should be, or for that matter what methods should be. Go is the spiritual successor to C, IMO - for all that people use it nowadays for its low-level capability, people forget that its original purpose was to do what every other language of its day did, but way, way more simply.