Generics were never required, just their lack was annoying and their presence makes some things just cleaner and easier For example I deal in ops stuff so pret

Generics were never required, just their lack was annoying and their presence makes some things just cleaner and easier For example I deal in ops stuff so pretty common task is "here are desired and current set, generate list of add/delete operations to get from one state to another". I wrote iteration of that function a bunch of times pre-generics, eventually being just copy-paste-change-types but now I can just write [1] one that compares a slice of types and returns the elements present in left or right and [2] another that can do similar difference on disparate types via conversion function. Then there is a whole slew of map/reduce and math stuff that now can just have `Map` or `Max` function without worrying about types. Hell I can "just" write "parse all the slice elements in parallel, keeping order [3] once and never worry about it. That's also code that I wrote more than once before generics * [1] https://github.com/XANi/goneric/blob/master/slice.go#L77 https://github.com/XANi/goneric/blob/master/slice.go#L77 * [2] https://github.com/XANi/goneric/blob/master/slice.go#L106 https://github.com/XANi/goneric/blob/master/slice.go#L106 * [3] https://github.com/XANi/goneric/blob/master/parallel.go#L15 https://github.com/XANi/goneric/blob/master/parallel.go#L15