[cheph]

> I do think Go was far too adamant for far too long about not needing generics (also known as parametric polymorphism); seems sober minds clearly disagree about where to put the boundaries.

Adamant is rather generous. Golang maintainers are overly defensive about serious deficiencies in an otherwise mediocre programming language. It is the worst tool for the job in almost any situation.

At the moment it is easier to write correct software in Python than it is to do it in Golang and in almost all cases correctness is more important than performance.

[rocqua]

> Golang maintainers are overly defensive about serious deficiencies in an otherwise mediocre programming language.

It seems to me like a sentence like this is exactly what the article was arguing against.