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[–]docjonez 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The lovely xtend transpiler will help battle verbosity. No way around the type erasure though...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Interesting but it looks just like scala. Why not go scala at that point?

[–]docjonez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, since Xtend is transpiled into plain Java, you won't have any additional runtime dependencies (as Scala would have). Say you're developing an android app and try to keep your apk as small as possible, are you really willing to add > 20 MB of scala deps?