I don't understand why promoting Go to be the next Java is a good thing. Let's just use it to do what it's good at, and if you need generics, go use a language that has generics. We already know what a language that can do everything looks like, and it's a mess.

Plus, are they going to rewrite the entire STL? Are we going to get a library of Algos and DS when we have generics? Generics pretty much changes the entire look and feel of the language. Might as well make it a fork than an iteration.

So much for simplicity and copying. :) RIP Go 2009-2019