> And in Java it didn't stop there; the people (person?) behind generics moved on to create Scala, a language with even more features and a notoriously complica

> And in Java it didn't stop there; the people (person?) behind generics moved on to create Scala, a language with even more features and a notoriously complicated 25-step compilation process What does this have to do with anything? Scala is complex to compile for reasons far, far beyond generics. Are generics somehow guilty by association because an engineer who was once involved in an implementation of them went on to build some other complex thing?