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minus-squareEthanlinkfedilinkEnglish8•6 months agoI am aware of that, but Java is the most popular language that runs on the JVM. I don’t specifically dislike other JVM languages, though one of my issues is type erasure and that’s partially a limitation of the JVM.
minus-square@atzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish2•6 months agoKotlin is becoming very popular.In like 10 years of Java development I ran into type erasure like once… Project Valhalla should help with it though (when it finally lands). And kotlin/other jvm languages will benefit as well.
minus-square@azthec@feddit.nllinkfedilink1•6 months agoThere are solutions to it. For example in Scala I’ve had to use Class tags a couple of times before and they were ergonomic and functioned well
I am aware of that, but Java is the most popular language that runs on the JVM. I don’t specifically dislike other JVM languages, though one of my issues is type erasure and that’s partially a limitation of the JVM.
Kotlin is becoming very popular.In like 10 years of Java development I ran into type erasure like once…
Project Valhalla should help with it though (when it finally lands). And kotlin/other jvm languages will benefit as well.
There are solutions to it. For example in Scala I’ve had to use Class tags a couple of times before and they were ergonomic and functioned well