Analysis of Different Compilation Strategies for Generics in Golang

Generics is a short notation for a function or type that takes a type parameter. These features allow you to write code once, but then use it for several different specific types. Today, generics or similar entities exist in many programming languages. Their advantages are that they reduce the time to write code and its amount, and also simplify testing. There are currently no generics in the Golang programming language, although it is almost 12 years old. This was done intentionally, because the philosophy of this programming language is simplicity. But due to numerous requests from the developer community, the creators of the language decided to consider adding them. First, they developed an API, looking at several options and choosing the best one. Then they proposed its implementation in the form of a tool that translates code from Generic Go to Go 1 using code generation. In the future, it is planned to implement the ideas from this tool into the code of the language itself. The purpose of this work was to study other approaches to the implementation of the same functionality. After considering several options, we decided to use the reflect package. As a result, the created tool loses in terms of operating time and other parameters to the original tool, as expected.