1. Not an issue for web services, which is what the OP was referring to. 2. See #1. 3. Neither does Java, although of course it can be helpful. 4. Error hand

1. Not an issue for web services, which is what the OP was referring to. 2. See #1. 3. Neither does Java, although of course it can be helpful. 4. Error handling is certainly not less verbose. None of the above overcome the lack of tooling, libraries and generics, at least for me.