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Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p... by Gibbon1 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:06PM (#25004178)
I like generics because it actually solves a lot of things that OOP and inheritance were supposed to without turning your dependencies into a ball of mud.

After 30 years of mediocre programming things I hate are unplanned/hidden side effects, train wrecks due to mutable state, and out of control dependencies. Error handling at this point seems like Weltschmerz.

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Re:Python overtakes Java to become the second-most popular p... by xxpor on Saturday November 07, 2020 @02:45PM (#25018316)
Agreed on the second point, but when I think of "ergonomics", I'm mostly thinking about how much I have to type to get stuff done. For example, Java has generics and unchecked exceptions, but still sucks ergonomically without an IDE just due to syntax and imports.
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