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by simiones 1990 days ago
The only difference between Go and Java 1.4 in terms of collections is that Go has a generic map type, which Java didn't. Java 1.4 still had generic arrays, just like Go. In fact, it was a little easier to program with generic arrays in Java vs Go (but also less safe) because in Java a subtype[] can be passed to a function which takes a supertype[] (arrays are covariant).