I agree, but then people can't complain much when other people, like the Go team, have different opinions and make different decisions than they would. We should encourage experimentation rather than discourage it. No one is forcing anyone to use Go, and there are plenty of languages that have generics, are immutable by default, etc, etc.
> We should encourage experimentation rather than discourage it.
I made this point already, but to reiterate more succinctly: we should definitely do that, and we should definitely also write about our thoughts on how we think those experiments are going, which is exactly what the OP is doing.
Sure, but don't be surprised when people have different opinions and aren't convinced by anecdotes. Reading the comments here you can find tons of people that are shocked, SHOCKED, that not everyone agrees with them on generics, immutability, etc. I think it's important that we remember that these are all opinions with no empirical data to support them, on either side.
