New Post on Generic Methods

2026-08-26

I just published a new blog post on generic methods for Go. You can find it at go.dev/blog.

This was proposed and implemented on #77273. Feel free to read through the proposal comments, implementation CLs, and any related links for background. In implementing generic methods (with help from other Go members), I learned a lot about how generics work “under the hood”—at least in the primary Go toolchain.

This blog post covers some of the rationale for adding generic methods in Go 1.27, given that they were excluded from the generics introduced Go 1.18—check it out!