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		kasperni on July 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go generics are not bad Type classes are on the roadmap after Valhalla [1]. [1] https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/post/what-are-they-bui...

throwaway234232 on July 9, 2022 [–]

This is good news.

My wishlist for Java is for null to be illegal for all types unless they are encoded as nullable such as `T?`.

Until then, I just use Kotlin and/or Scala when I require JVM.

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