On: Proposal: Go should have generics

[parenthephobia]

I don't think we will.

The Go community doesn't hate protocolbuffers, but it does tend to think that generics are evil and shouldn't exist.

I'm certain that generic generators will be shunned by the community at large, due to solving a problem they don't believe needs solving. Without the network effect to build up a user and developer-based, they'll languish in obscurity.

I sure would like to be wrong, though!

[saturn_vk → parenthephobia]

I haven't seen any indication that the community hates the idea of having generics. The contrary seems to be the case.

[serge2k → saturn_vk]

Seems like they talk a lot about how it's a problem but don't put the effort into solving it.

In other words, they aren't interested in getting generics. Not really.