If null pointers are your problem, Java and JavaScript are not the answer. If overall type safety is your problem, JS is definitely not the answer. If you don't

If null pointers are your problem, Java and JavaScript are not the answer. If overall type safety is your problem, JS is definitely not the answer. If you don't like boilerplate and can accommodate dynamic typing, you can just use interface{} for the generic bits and statically type the other 95% (which is still a 95% improvement over JS--even better since Go catches impossible type assertion errors and gives better messaging for runtime type errors). Generics would be an improvement to Go for sure, but Go is still one of the best overall application development languages available today (greenfield or maintenance mode).