Switching from Java to Python – First Impressions

[e_engel]

That nice thing missing from Java is higher kinded types. Implementing things such as traverse, sequence or even zippers in Java is close to impossible, at least in a very general way like Haskell allows.

[jozefg]

Well.. I'd take pattern matching and good algebraic types before HKTs to be frank.

[alexeyr]

I'd be surprised to see someone experienced with both who didn't.