> Very curious about how Go getting generics will change its position in the landscape

Go cannot get generics because "conservative politics" in its community period. A lot of prominent gatekeepers are all about the status quo.

There are a few things Go could do to make it easier to work with, ease "type equivalence", introduce some covariance into the mix. Maybe unions, maybe replace multiple return types with tuples and destructuring assignement.

I don't believe a second Go will ever get generics and the courageous proposal done by Ian Lance Taylor, the hero of the language right now, won't really satisfy anybody because it's too complex yet doesn't do that much IMHO.

This is purely a political question, not a technical one. We had that debate for almost 10 years now and I dread more petty drama.