Generics are, IMO, necessary for even a semi-modern language. Okay, you don't need a turing complete templating sublanguage like C++, but you do need at least a

Generics are, IMO, necessary for even a semi-modern language. Okay, you don't need a turing complete templating sublanguage like C++, but you do need at least a way to take generic functions and create generic containers. In application code you will almost never write generics. To me, it's always been a non-issue.