That goes against the definition of the word complication. To complicate something is to combine and intertwine it with other concerns. To fold them together is to complicate them.
To generify a function is to complicate it with the ability to accept multiple types rather than just one.
There are totally great use cases for generics but all the cases I’ve seen are in library code not in general application programming which is where most developers spend most of our time. But of course the shiny toy can be hard to resist and so generics are often overused and abused.
That goes against the definition of the word complication. To complicate something is to combine and intertwine it with other concerns. To fold them together is to complicate them.
To generify a function is to complicate it with the ability to accept multiple types rather than just one.
There are totally great use cases for generics but all the cases I’ve seen are in library code not in general application programming which is where most developers spend most of our time. But of course the shiny toy can be hard to resist and so generics are often overused and abused.