Generics Update: "We will be working on that throughout 2021, with a goal of having something for people to try out by the end of the year, perhaps a part of the Go 1.18 betas."
I'll be happy if generics will be never included in Go. They will definitely reduce code readability, will increase binary sizes and will increase compile times because of generics' abusers.
I wrote a ton of various code in Go [1] over the last 10 years and had never experienced the need in generics. The last my project in Go is VictoriaMetrics [2] - fast and cost-effective open source time series database and monitoring solution.
Before Go I was writing some code in C++ and was constantly struggling with C++ templates in stl and boost libraries. This was absolute nightmare from debugging PoV.