Comment by typical182
1 hour ago
From what I've seen, I don't think the core Go team was ignoring the lessons of Java or C#.
Here's a sample quote from Russ Cox from 11 years ago on this site: [1]
We have spoken to a few true experts in Java generics and each of them has said roughly the same thing: be very careful, it's not as easy as it looks, and you're stuck with all the mistakes you make. As a demonstration, skim through most of https://go.dev/blog/generics-next-step#acknowledgements
FWIW, C# generics are way better (ergonomics) than the Java ones (due to type erasure), so Java waited too much. History is more complicated though for Java, since it was either having some generics vs having none. See [this](https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1766...) for a lengthier discussion.