Go Generics

This chapter is about generics and how to use the new syntax to write generic functions and define generic data types. Generic programming is a programming paradigm that allows the developer to implement a function using one or more data types that are going to be provided at a later time.

The Go generics support came with Go 1.18, which was officially released in February 2022. As a result, Go generics is now old news! Nevertheless, the Go community is still trying to make sense and good use of generics. In fact, most Go developers are already doing their job without the help of generics.

If you feel that this chapter does not interest you at this point of your learning journey, feel free to skip it and come back at a later stage. However, I suggest that you read it even though it might not interest you right now.

This brings us to the following fact: you do not have to use Go generics if you do not want to, have doubts about the usefulness of...