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Java had become the industry's workhorse also without generics... Yeah but now that we have generics the bar has been raised right? I’m not giving generics up

Java had become the industry's workhorse also without generics... Yeah but now that we have generics the bar has been raised right? I’m not giving generics up, that’s for sure.

copperx 7y ago
Java had the Object superclass, and that's how generic methods and classes were written before version 5. Is there a Go equivalent of Object?
- adamlett 7y ago
  Yes. The empty interface.
geodel 7y ago
Well of course you don't need to. Individual/independent developers would use what they deem fit. It is corporate developers who will receive mandate to use a particular language or technology. For example a large company where I work, it is mostly Java shop. However the new telemetry/tooling group has now mandated to use Go. So about 40+ devs are working in Go. Nobody asked their opinion about Go vs Java or Generics , Sum types, exception vs errors and so on. Same devs would have used Weblogic/Websphere or whatever if asked. Developers in this categories are not going to say "LOL J2EE" or "LOL Go". They will do whatever being asked and collect paycheck in return. If they chose to be independent voice, they are going to be asked to leave and make way for devs who comply.