> The powerful abstractions that you mention, including generics, are indeed good things, but pardon me but I suspect you've never seen how badly and easily they can be abused in certain environments. You've probably seen the Factory<Factory<NaturalNumbersFacade>> joke somewhere, real live enterprise software is sometime like this, but unironically.

Isn't that more of a criticism of enterprise software than generics? If they can write ugly generic code, they sure as hell can write ugly Go code as well. They're just different different programming styles, and while some like one others prefer the other. Even when you code in ASM, you'll probably end up writing generic code down the line. You'll just be managing it manually rather than have a compiler, preprocessor, or templating engine do it for you. It's a preference, and I say to each their own. Also, the whole moralizing holier-than-thou simplicity and anti-abstraction talk is getting kind of annoying, but then again, there's lots of moralizing people in the Rust camp who are just as annoying.