Comment by MBCook

In my mind Java really got usable in 1.5 with collections and generics.

When you didn’t have collections everything was a complete pain. But after they were added you still had to cast everything back to whatever type it was supposed to be when you got stuff out of collections. Which was also a huge pain.

I know all the arguments about how genetics weren’t done “correctly“ in Java. I’ve run into the problems.But I’m so glad we have them.