Brian Goetz, Oracle's Java language architect, has been talking for quite a while about the need for new features in Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to improve its typing system on several ...

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Universal generics would allow Java type variables to range over primitive and reference types, making it easier to extend or reuse code across different types. Java would get universal generics under ...

Jeet Kaul, Oracle’s vice president for client software, thinks Java suffers from an image problem: It’s attracting the wrong crowd. “I would like to see people with piercings doing Java programming,” ...