[kaba0]

> inescapable OOP complicates Java code bases

> while the static typing is so weak

Both of these are straight up false. Java can be written with static functions and single-depth inheritance trees just fine. Hell, the direction the language took for quite a few years now are pretty much this with records, pattern matching, etc.

And while Java is not Haskell, it has a moderately strong type system with quite a good generic implementation making even some more advanced functional patterns expressible.

Your claim on LOCs is also false (as well as most of this kind of claim) Java has at most a tiny bit of constant overhead, it won’t make it anywhere close to 2x.