Since you say you don't know Go, I'll clarify one thing: the Go ethos includes curbing programmers who like to be clever and tricky and sophisticated. It irrita

Since you say you don't know Go, I'll clarify one thing: the Go ethos includes curbing programmers who like to be clever and tricky and sophisticated. It irritates a lot of us but I understand there's probably wisdom in it. Haskell is one of my favorite languages, you don't have to sell me on generics. Now that Go relented and finally implemented them, a lot of people are worried that the "clever" programmers are going to have their way. This blog post, I think, is a means to curb that. So I'm wondering exactly where the line is from their perspective.