I found that attitude much more prevalent in the .Net community: for just about anything added since C# 2.0 (I didn't follow discussions about generics after the 1.0 release though I expect it also happened then), the idea was essentially dismissed as pointless ivory-tower wankery useless to developers in the Real World right until MS announced it for the next version, at which point it became an Obviously Great idea and a good way to trash-talk java.