Support for generics

[godcrampy]

Are there any plans to support generics?

Rewriting with generics could largely reduce the risk of exposing runtime panics and converting them into compile-time errors.
For example:

func (accounting *Accounting) FormatMoney(value interface{}) string

The FormatMoney function takes in any type and does type a check only at runtime.

Happy to help with the refactor if it sounds like a good idea.

[idc77]

It will most definitely make the code run much slower

[adamdecaf]

Generics in Go are very performant and can clean up code such as the example above.