(In fact, generics have been a relatively late and reluctant addition to Java. They had been at home in ML-family languages and others for ages before.)
Go seems amazing otherwise, but I cannot get over the fact that it forces me to capitalize or not capitalize my variables, and has types in the wrong order.
Since this is so prevalent in newer languages, despite a pretty strong tradition in the other direction, I wonder if there is a pretty good reason for this which language design experts are keenly aware of when they design new languages.
But it was just after the death of IE ;) [Call me lucky]
My 2 cents: widespread adoption is not synonym with long term perenity.
