That doesn’t mean that zero research is needed to define the best syntax and implementation approach for, specifically, Go. It just means it should have taken

That doesn’t mean that zero research is needed to define the best syntax and implementation approach for, specifically, Go. It just means it should have taken less time to decide on that. Which comes back to my original point: Cox was never against generics despite the popular meme claiming he was. People’s real complaint should be the time it took to decide upon an official approach. I get why some people are frustrated. But at the end of the day, most of the people who comment about it on HN aren’t people who do any development in Go to begin with. So it often just feels like people taking potshots to troll rather than an honest conversation about the merits of the article (eg in this instance, it has nothing to do with generics).