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This. One should never pick a language that regresses in terms of features from the get go.

It's an utter waste of time for developers, business, everyone. Millions of lines of Go code have been written without generics. Libraries have been written. Support, maintenance, …

Yes, just used the word for emphasis :-)

Nothing is wrong. What was wrong before when they vehemently argued against adding it? Is that design principle/core value lost now?

First they said they won't add generics. They violently defended that decision. Developers bent over backwards to make it work without generics. Some even wrote long blog posts def…

For those who don't know Msft is working on https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-maia-for-the-er...

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They even downvote people who suggest C++ :-). Doing this in C is such a colossal waste of time and energy, not to mention the bugs it'll introduce. Sigh!

I would rather focus on solving the main problem than reinvent the wheel. Just use C++ if perf is critical which gives you all these things for free. In this day and age the reason…