[tombert]

Generics still kind of suck but they’re workable enough. As far as I am aware they’re broadly unchanged and I don’t think they added any kind of new variance.

It turns out, though, it’s still good enough for sealed interfaces and the like; I don’t have too many issues with it, though that might just be Stockholm syndrome at this point.

Maven is terrible as always but Gradle is generally fine. I use IntelliJ community edition solely for Java and it works well enough for what I need.

It’s not like Java is going to replace F# for me or anything, but I do genuinely think it’s more fun to write now than it used to be.

[vips7L]

Maven is generally fine. The only complaint anyone has is “xml bad”. Outside of that maven is probably (?) better than gradle. At least it prevents a custom scripting mess.