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Having used C#, C/C++, Ruby, Perl, PHP, and Javascript, I find golang to be one of the most refreshing approaches to programming among them all. I think many people are finding themselves feeling upset because they are convinced that the simplicity of golang implies only idiots use it which then must mean that the language will be a failure (almost at an a priori level).
Huh. It was dead simple for me.
Been using it for years now in a setting with lots of data and never had any problems.
I am another developer who has never really suffered as a result of a lack of generics. Personally I really like how dead easy golang code is to read and understand. God forbid golang become a language where untold amounts of logic can be packed into a single line of code, resulting in near mathematical levels of complexity which always require more time to understand. Like most complex concepts in life, I suspect the number of developers who can effectively use these tools is rather small compared to the number of people who think they "need" them. But hey, I'm a vim programmer who doesn't like to have to rely on a bloated IDE to be able to deal with the code that I am interacting with so I might be a minority.