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You mean the usual documents that get thrown into generics discussions, where he keeps talking about C++ and Java, while ignoring all other programming languages designed since CLU and ML in the 70's?

"In retrospect, we were biased too much by experience with C++ without concepts and Java generics. We would have been well-served to spend more time with CLU and C++ concepts earlier."

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

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This has been acknowledged and addressed. What is your proposal?

I don't know, that they actually implement them, instead of doing proposal after proposal?!?

Even the ideas that eventually die on the Web, C++, Java and .NET happen to have preview implementations available to try out at one point, instead of dead paper.

I don't think it is efficient to implement a dozen of ways to handle generics.

People who need generics will use code generation until the issue is addressed, I don't really see the need to rush.

Attention to details is something I like about go.

Just like C++ MS-DOS compilers used to do before ANSI/ISO started to work on templates, about 30 years ago, talk about progress.

C++ has concepts now. What's the excuse?

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