The Go team did an amazing work to add generics with a very small impact on the language. They even managed to add generics without breaking the Go 1.0 compatib

The Go team did an amazing work to add generics with a very small impact on the language. They even managed to add generics without breaking the Go 1.0 compatibility guarantee. Check the short list of changes to the language specification in the Go 1.18 release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.18#generics https://go.dev/doc/go1.18#generics Go is still a small language, even with generics.