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You'll notice that the Go designers did add complexity where they felt that it was worth it. For example, their reflection facility is much more powerful than C++'s, and one could argue that for many typical modern programming tasks, like XML serialization (see Russ's post later in this blog), that power is more helpful than the power of generic programming. (I've little doubt that you could find a way to parse XML into C++ structs using template metaprogramming, but I don't think it would be pretty, and of course the I/O time would dominate anyway, so it wouldn't be measurably more efficient.)
