I'm not entirely sure what argument you think I'm making or what you're arguing against. Yes, Python is used a lot. Go is used a lot. C++ is used a lot. Progra

I'm not entirely sure what argument you think I'm making or what you're arguing against. Yes, Python is used a lot. Go is used a lot. C++ is used a lot. Programming language design is all about tradeoffs. The makers of Go went for simplicity. There are pros and cons about their approach. What do you do when you run into something like this? You put your head down and work through it, like I have done every time I've had to write those three functions for sorting something in Go. We can talk about the cons of an approach without having to point out that people work through it. After all, it's pretty easy to look around and see that a lot of ambitious stuff is being built in C. Somehow, they manage to do it without memory safety and generics.