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Kubernetes is a transpiled Java project, so yeah, Java-like features would definitely make it easier :P

I think idiomatic golang works pretty well without generics in most cases, the big problem for me is that functional programming is essentially impossible without them.

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Can you provide some resources on what makes you think Kubernetes is a transpiled Java project?

That's definitely not the case from what I know/understand...

There is a talk about it you can find here: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/kubernetesclusterfuck...

It was originally written in Java and lots of its Go code is a strange mix of the two (Java-like idioms in Go). This might be where the term "Gova" came from.

The original team used Java, and the actual team rewrote it in Go.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubernetes says original Kubernetes was all C++.

If you read the article more closely, it says that Borg was written in C++. If you watch the video linked by @tuvan below, you'll hear the speaker (who is a contributor) mention that the original authors of Kubernetes wrote the first version in Java, which was rewritten in Go.

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