They thought about generics for 12 years. It's unlikely that someone who thought about it for 3 minutes on Hacker News has some epiphany that wasn't taken into consideration.
Also, I think it is fair to challenge the decisions here seeing as how there have been a few things chosen in Go's history that ignores prior art from other programming languages.
They thought about generics for 12 years. It's unlikely that someone who thought about it for 3 minutes on Hacker News has some epiphany that wasn't taken into consideration.