Porting the Go compiler to Go

> Meanwhile, the real point I made, which is that most programmers don't need new and exotic containers most of the time, remains unaddressed.
This “generics are only about containers“ thing is utterly stupid. Trivial abstractions like map, fold, filter, function composition etc. need generics to express them properly, and they're needed for futures, composable stream abstractions, parser combinators, on and on it goes…