On 09/05/2014 18:25, brad clawsie wrote:
> The official mailing list has practically no mention of generics anymore.

I think it comes up fairly regularly, despite the ML regulars being very anti-generics. This was posted just 2 months ago:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/PI_nf78jV2k

On Wednesday, 7 May 2014 at 15:54:42 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> So the videos of the Gophercon 2014 are being made available.
>
> Rob Pike did the keynote. At the expected question about generics,
> his answer was "There are no plans for generics. I said we're going to leave the language; we're done.".
>
> Discussion ongoing on HN,
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7708904
>
> --
> Paulo


When Rob Pike was asked at the end of his keynote speech whether Go will support generics one day the majority of the audience was immediately laughing. If I were into Go this would make me think.

I don't think parameterized types are necessary for a typed language to be "good". But in Go it would be helpful to allow workarounds for modelling problems. As I like the way concurrency is done in Go I tried several times to find programming solutions that can manage without violating visibility rules or having duplicate variables or some other compromise. But there was simply no way.