> Rob Pike has outlined the tradeoffs inherent with generics here: http://research.swtch.com/2009/12/generic-dilemma.html

First of all that post was written by Russ Cox.

Second, it already has been discussed multiple times that it only focus on C++, C#, Java approaches while cleverly forgetting generics implementations exist in multiple forms since CLU (1974) introduced them.

But Go advocates take that page as dogma and toss it around every time a generics discussion comes up.