How is it strange? It seems completely natural to me. A programming language is a tool that software devs have to use for 8 hours a day. And even more annoyingly the individual software dev generally doesn't get to decide what tool he gets to use. That means the top programming languages are always under a strong pressure to adopt feature X from Y devs favourite language. Now Go is quite an interesting case I think. It's essentially an ancient language with good tooling support backed by one of the largest companies in the world. Go has now yielded to generics. I don't think Go is capable of becoming modern because the initial design decision have essentially made that almost impossible. I wonder though, what the next feature for Go demanded by the community will be.