>>Any plans to add templates/a form of generic programming?
The Go team is open to generics as soon as there is a proposal they feel fits right without performance penalties.
Read: http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
>>Does the community care about that?
Yes, but most people in the Go community are OK waiting for the "right" solution.
>>How have people been working around that?
Generics are nice and convenient, but you can write anything/everything without generics. Just look at everything written in C. And C doesn't have interfaces like Go.
The Go team is open to generics as soon as there is a proposal they feel fits right without performance penalties. Read: http://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
>>Does the community care about that?
Yes, but most people in the Go community are OK waiting for the "right" solution.
>>How have people been working around that?
Generics are nice and convenient, but you can write anything/everything without generics. Just look at everything written in C. And C doesn't have interfaces like Go.