alt Hacker News> instead of hand-waving it away as needless fluff.
If you go back and watch the original Go announcement it was made abundantly clear that they believed Go did need generics but that they didn't have the expertise to do it. Yes it is true that the book was already written on it, but that doesn't mean anyone on the Go team was familiar with it or had the time to become familiar with it. Programming languages do not require gods to design them. Imperfect humans can too.
The experts on HN who know all the ins and outs of generics could have contributed but, you know, shitposting "go doesn't have generics lol" was a better use of their time. There are so many hours in the day.
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The key point here is our programming language designers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school…
Gonuts is full of content that they were not keen in generics, in fact gccgo has been abandoned, and I expect it to eventually follow gcj and be removed from GCC.
Go culture is not welcoming to experts contributions, Rust, D, C#, Swift and others, heck even Java, are more open arms to language designers.