I doubt that was very widely read. I think it would be a mistake to attribute much of the adoption to that statement.

I'm sorry, but I don't get this comment. Go is a great programming language! It is great because it is easy to write, read and maintain programs written in Go. This is because of the following features:

- Simple syntax

- Fast compile times

- Great tooling (go fmt, go vet, go too pprof, go tool cover, race detector, ect.)

- Useful standard library

Generics do not improve any of these features :( They complicate syntax, they slow down compile times and they complicate internals of go compiler and tools.

BTW, it is great to see that Go1.20 and the upcoming Go1.21 [1] return to good things instead of generics:

- Performance optimizations (profile-guided optimization, GC optimizations, etc.)

- Reducing compile times

- Reducing binary sizes (improved linker, which can throw away unused code more aggressively)

[1] https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/V8ez4YunkeE