It's my theory that Java, unintentionally, did a lot of damage to P&L research. I write a lot of Rust, and while the borrow checker is great, I've come to really admire the work that was put in the Go GC even if it's not as fast Java.
There is a whole generation of programmers that have come to equate GC with Java's 10 second pauses or generics/typed variables with Java's implementation of them. Even the return to typed systems (Sorbel, pythons' typing, typescript) could be seen as typed languages are great, what we really hated was Java's verbose semantics.
There is a whole generation of programmers that have come to equate GC with Java's 10 second pauses or generics/typed variables with Java's implementation of them. Even the return to typed systems (Sorbel, pythons' typing, typescript) could be seen as typed languages are great, what we really hated was Java's verbose semantics.