Well, you can consider it mentioned to the author... that would be me!
I shouldn't have tweaked Java so mercilessly since I did love the language for so long (lo, these many years ago). However, I do think you really underestimate the compile speed of Go. Even if 99% of your builds are incremental, you can't entirely discount the occasional clean build. While it has been many years since I hacked Java, even incremental builds could take more than a few seconds. Even a clean build on our 50 kloc Go codebase clocks in under 2 seconds (0.1s when the disk caches are pre-warmed).
As for generics, I do like them, and seeing them on iOS (with Swift) is a pretty big win. I'm not entirely convinced that Go is much poorer without them, however. The type system in Go is really unique; if you tried to program Go using Java-style paradigms, there's no question that you'd find it pretty disappointing. However, Go does allow some new ways of thinking about types that allow a degree of flexibility that simply can't be expressed with formal class hierarchies.
If what you're doing works for you, just keep on truckin'. But if you give some of these new languages a chance, you might find the areas where they really shine. We did!
I shouldn't have tweaked Java so mercilessly since I did love the language for so long (lo, these many years ago). However, I do think you really underestimate the compile speed of Go. Even if 99% of your builds are incremental, you can't entirely discount the occasional clean build. While it has been many years since I hacked Java, even incremental builds could take more than a few seconds. Even a clean build on our 50 kloc Go codebase clocks in under 2 seconds (0.1s when the disk caches are pre-warmed).
As for generics, I do like them, and seeing them on iOS (with Swift) is a pretty big win. I'm not entirely convinced that Go is much poorer without them, however. The type system in Go is really unique; if you tried to program Go using Java-style paradigms, there's no question that you'd find it pretty disappointing. However, Go does allow some new ways of thinking about types that allow a degree of flexibility that simply can't be expressed with formal class hierarchies.
If what you're doing works for you, just keep on truckin'. But if you give some of these new languages a chance, you might find the areas where they really shine. We did!