> Not to mention that since spending almost decade of my career working with Java I have since worked with languages that do not have generics, and have not suf

> Not to mention that since spending almost decade of my career working with Java I have since worked with languages that do not have generics, and have not suffered thereby. Generics are, IMO, largely unnecessary. This needs to be drilled into the heads of all the people complaining that Go has no generics before they have even tried to use it. (Also Go's interfaces overlap with many common uses of generics, and Go's useful builtin containers take care of most of the rest).