Go Fundamentals: Gopher Guides

10. Generics

Generics¹ were first introduced to Go with the release of Go 1.18² in March 2022, as we were writing this book. We, like the Go team, have tried our best to present the current idioms and thoughts on the how, what, when, where, and why questions about generics in Go.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_programming

2. https://go.dev/blog/intro-generics

What Are Generics?

Generic programming is a programming paradigm that allows you to stub out the implementation of a function with a type that will be provided later. This has benefits for both writing and using generic functions. With generics, you can write functions that can work with multiple types directly without having to write the same function multiple times, once for ...