> To the people moaning about how generics will make their favourite language as awful and ugly as Java: all of the libraries and techniques you like and use today will always work.
In fairness: just because that's true doesn't mean the libraries they like or need won't be migrating to generic facilities one way or an other, so they may be forced to the choice of interacting with generics or needing to reimplement their wheels (though also in fairness that's also common in the go ecosystem).
> I think it’s important to remember that the people who design this language like it for the same reasons you do.
That's not necessarily true, the designers of the language are not necessarily designing it for their use or like. See: Rob Pike's well known quotes on the target population for Go.
In fairness: just because that's true doesn't mean the libraries they like or need won't be migrating to generic facilities one way or an other, so they may be forced to the choice of interacting with generics or needing to reimplement their wheels (though also in fairness that's also common in the go ecosystem).
> I think it’s important to remember that the people who design this language like it for the same reasons you do.
That's not necessarily true, the designers of the language are not necessarily designing it for their use or like. See: Rob Pike's well known quotes on the target population for Go.