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I did lots of programming in Java between 1995 and 2004 when the language had no generics. I did lots of programming in C++ prior to 1995 when it barely had generics. Now I do a fair amount of programming in Go and I don't really miss generics.

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Well, just have a look at gosearch and see all the generic generators poping up in Go. Most developers want generics period. By the way while Java didn't have generics before Java reflection and static polymorphism could make up for them. C++ has a preprocessor so even without template you can do generic programming.

Go has ... code generation that isn't even triggered by Go compiler.

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