Regarding generics (a.k.a. "templates"): > However, the original announcement makes the intent of the project clear: "Not yet", not "never". They were always p

Regarding generics (a.k.a. "templates"): > However, the original announcement makes the intent of the project clear: "Not yet", not "never". They were always planned to be accepted into Go. This is an exceedingly charitable interpretation of the position held by at least one Go language designer (Rob Pike)[0]: Notice that Robert said C was the starting point, not C++. I'm not certain but I believe he meant C proper, especially because Ken was there. But it's also true that, in the end, we didn't really start from C. We built from scratch, borrowing only minor things like operators and brace brackets and a few common keywords. In the end of course it came out quite different from either C or C++. More different even than many realize. I made a list of significant simplifications in Go over C and C++: ... - no templates ... 0 - https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...