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[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 7 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] azthec@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] azthec@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years 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 permalink fedilink source parent