What will generics be like in Go?

Question

Recently, there has been a lot of criticism about Go because it does not support generics. What exactly does this mean? How would you explain this to someone from a dynamically typed language like Ruby, where this is not a familiar concept?

Answer 1

In a dynamically typed language, you don't care what type of list it is, it's just a list. However, in a statically typed language, you don't care what type of list it is, because the type is "list A", where "A" is some type. That is, list Adifferent from list B.

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