Wait generics? What changed? Why is golang accepting of generics now?

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They landed half a decade ago...

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nrr an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

There are some details here about the history of how generics finally came to Go: https://golang.design/under-the-hood/en/part2lang/ch08generi...

The tl;dr boils down to a combination of valuing both compilation speed and execution speed.