From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 14:37:54 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > The lack of unsigned integers is a PITA.   
      
   Also the lack of typedefs. A basic convenience, but such an important one.   
      
   > The decision to implement generics in a backwards compatible way in Java   
   > 5 had some immediate benefits, but we are also paying the price today.   
      
   It seemed to be done to maintain backward binary compatibility with older   
   bytecode that could not be recompiled. Was there a lot of such bytecode? I   
   never realized ...   
      
   I think somewhere in the beginning, the goal of Java was to take all the   
   good bits out of C++, leave out the rest and add garbage collection and   
   some dynamic capability -- basically to be a simpler, smaller language   
   than C++. Somehow along the way, that goal got lost.   
      
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