After five years of developer perseverance, generics are finally being added to the Java language. The path to generics has been frustrating and controversial to say the least. At JavaOne's ...

Java generics are less powerful than their C++ counterparts, but very simple to apply. Java generic classes are compiled into bytecodes, assuming java.lang.Object for all type parameters (or, ...

Google’s Go finally could be adding generics, long sought by many Go users as a mechanism to simplify the language. A Go language change proposal filed January 12 in GitHub calls for adding ...