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Neah. Generics are useful. Not perfect, but useful. They also happen to be optional. The language evolution has been good, but too slow. Even the platform evo

by lsd5you 17y ago

Neah. Generics are useful. Not perfect, but useful. They also happen to be optional. The language evolution has been good, but too slow. Even the platform evolution has been good, they have (and perhaps still) set the standard for many types of libraries. My main issue is the growth of the platform (to what, 200mb?). I would like a much tighter standard library. In an ideal world, Swing, XML parsing ... etc. should be seperate, deprecated items removed and old apis redone.

nradov 17y ago
200MB? The latest JRE is only about 20MB. Those libraries consume very little space.
- Tichy 17y ago
  20 MB might just be the loader, though. I recently installed the JDK after a long pause and I was appalled at how unpleasant the process had become.
  - nradov 17y ago
    No, 20MB is the complete JSE runtime download including all libraries.
Tichy 17y ago
Not so much optional - I think in modern Java projects you will be expected to use them. Also, 3rd party code will use them and won't work with your code if you don't use them. Anyway, it is all a matter of taste.