how to update APIs for generics · golang/go · Discussion #48287

@ianlancetaylor, @griesemer, and I are wondering about different possible plans for updating APIs that would have used generics but currently use interface{}, and we wanted to cast a wider net for ideas. There exist types and functions that clearly would use generics if we wrote them today. For example: type sync.Pool would naturally be sync.Pool[T] type sync.Map would naturally be sync.Map[K, V]