I have read those same arguments over and over. Just because generics do not come up as often does not mean they won't make programs safer and/or faster. Almos

I have read those same arguments over and over. Just because generics do not come up as often does not mean they won't make programs safer and/or faster. Almost all of the workarounds I have seen for the lack of generics can easily be applied to Java for instance. There were several questions that came up on the Go mailing list asking how to convert certain code to make it more "idiomatic". The resulting code had several layers of indirection, interfaces composed of interfaces, and so on, that ironically it would have looked much more concise, and would have been type safe in a more "traditional OO" language like Java.