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Go and Java: Rethinking Type Safety for the Pragmatic Age

Go and Java: Rethinking Type Safety for the Pragmatic Age.
premise I want to explore where mainstream programming languages are headed, using Java and Go as my primary subjects.
java is underrated The reason I say Java is underrated is because it is oddly both easy to learn and its type system is strong enough to make many incorrect states irrepresentable.[1] It has product types and sum types, and makes managing state explicit and easy enough.[2]
Java is very “simple” precisely due to its verbosity.

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