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I'm concerned about two things (that I hope I'm wrong about): (1) developers will overuse generics and use poor types or `any` where not necessary, and (2) this marks the beginning of Go's convergence to yet another language with a million choices for abstractions and a million ways to misuse its features.

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I think they did this really quite elegantly by extending the interfaces abstraction.

Personally I would discourage overuse of generics in an application codebase as I’d discourage overuse of interfaces, concurrency or channels - they have their place in certain areas (for generics e.g. collections, orms - mostly in library code) but most of the time simply aren’t required.

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