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so 84% don't want generics, right? :) I switched to Go from Python several years ago, I admit that I missed generics for the first several weeks but then just moved forward. Nowadays I don't really think I actually need them anymore.

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Well, it's not like you had them in Python anyway, so there was not much to miss.

Generics are a mechanism by which a statically-typed language can approach the generality of abstraction possible in a dynamically typed language while preserving static type safety, so even though Python doesn't have generics, one absolutely would have good cause to miss them going from Python to Go.

>so even though Python doesn't have generics, one absolutely would have good cause to miss them going from Python to Go.

Not really, since you can always just use interface{} for everything and get all the dynamism back.

Generics is when you want to have both (dynamism and safety).

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