I love the fact that I can pick up a Go project from 5+ years ago and it still compiles with the current toolchain. I might need to do a 'go mod init' first.

It didn't get 67 new features that start shooting deprecation warnings on old functions in the meantime. I don't have to learn new paradigms or switch integral parts of my code to something new.

Generics has been in Go for dunno how long, haven't used it once. Didn't need to.

I'm not sure that's a good thing. But for your arugement, code from 5+ years ago and keeping the same deps you're mostly able to do that with java*.

(With exception to some java9 and minor deprications).

However, wait long enough that will come to Go, or it'll become less useful.

I used generics once, was kinda useful, but definitely avoidable. The only feature I could see myself using is something Linq-esque for slices and maps. Otherwise I’m content.