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> it's not too verbose

that's a really puzzling statement to me, maybe aside from C, C++, and Java, (and maybe rust) Go is certainly on the "more verbose" side.

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Pretty sure those are almost all of the most popular statically typed languages (absent C#, which has about the same verbosity as Java). I'm sure I'm wrong if you're willing to lower the threshold for "popular" enough.

I’ll opine that C# is much less verbose than Java in practice - language features like properties, reified generics, functional-like programming with Linq, tuples and its jilt-in support for async APIs mean you can be surprisingly succinct.

Agreed 1000%. Java is backward compared to C# - bolted on half baked features that are the opposite of elegant, a standard library that is built on the principle of 'why use 10 lines when a 1000 will do' and the tools/IDEs are a generation behind C#. As is the runtime speed.

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