I've read enough critiques of Rust to be put off from trying it out at this time. And there's a lot of things I don't like about Go. (Zig is interesting though)

I've read enough critiques of Rust to be put off from trying it out at this time. And there's a lot of things I don't like about Go. (Zig is interesting though) Unfortunately Rust doesn't have the kind of library support that Java does, and I don't really want to roll my own on some things (the side project will never get done if I get lost in the weeds) For this project the choice fell between Java and C#, and Java won because I was familiar with the library code that does what I want to do. Besides, Java has Swing, which is about the only cross-platform GUI toolkit I can stand to work with (GTK as a close second) > but it also has heaps and heaps of loopholes in the type system (that turn into runtime exceptions) I've yet to run into this in places where I don't really expect it. Do you have some examples of where this becomes a problem? I wrote a bunch of reflection code that triggered a lot of RuntimeErrors, but that was foreseeable as its reflection, the whole point is to figure out types and whatnot during runtime. And at that point, I just fall back to how I write code in dynamic languages.