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There will be no Go 2 with breaking changes, it is just a marketing term for go with generics. I'm not fully clued in on the technical challenges with generics, but frankly you don't seem to be either. I know that there has been much ink spilled on the go-nuts mailing list and the issue tracker, as well as 3+ prior attempts at implementing generics, so I don't think it's fair to dismiss the go team's concerns out of hand.

Also, even if you were right and the go team simply said one day "we wont add generics lol" that would still be a very shallow reason to dislike the language. After all, that is only one of many aspects of the language, with a specific set of tradeoffs. The rest of the language can hold great value even if it doesn't look like the Hacker News Approved Language.



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