2 years ago

The Go language community recently released the results of the https://go.dev/blog/survey2021-results, which found that satisfaction with Go remains high, although there are some challenges to overcome to increase adoption. However, among the most significant technical barriers to increased Go language adoption are missing features and lack of ecosystem/library support. “We asked for more details on what features or libraries respondents were missing and found that generics was the most common critical missing feature — we expect this to be a less significant barrier after the introduction of generics in Go 1.18,” wrote https://www.linkedin.com/in/alicemerrick/, a user experience researcher at Google, in a https://go.dev/blog/survey2021-results discussing the 2021 survey.

The Go community added generics to the Go language in release 1.18 of the language.

“With generics, this specific feature has been the most sought-after feature in go for the last 10 years,” Francia said.