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Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

What's wrong with the syntax? It's just var_name: Type = value, it's very similar to Go or Rust. Things get a little wonky with generics (list[Type] or dict[Type]), but it's still similar to other languages.

One nice thing about it being runtime checked is you can accept union types, def func(param: int | float), which isn't very common in statically typed languages.