> Let's not fool ourselves here. There's a difference between "we just haven't figured it out yet" and "generics doesn't fit into the vision of Go". The former attitude is perfectly acceptable. The latter is really annoying and misleading because Go does use generics -- internally.

I think there's some misconception here, Russ Cox (one of the core Go team) posted this on HN a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417