> No language launches perfectly. There's a gulf between "not launching perfectly" and launching with obvious, blatant deficiencies. Go did the latter. Generi

> No language launches perfectly. There's a gulf between "not launching perfectly" and launching with obvious, blatant deficiencies. Go did the latter. Generics were always going to have to be implemented eventually, at least two languages in basically the space Go was targeting had had to bite that bullet in the decade before it was published. Support for third-party external dependencies only made that more dire. Instead of doing the work up-front and launching with generics, they decided to launch with ad-hoc generic builtins and "lalala can't hear you" for a decade, then finally implement half-assed generics.