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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] azthec@feddit.nl 1 points 5 months ago

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