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> what we really hated was Java's verbose semantics

I believe it's actually the opposite - Java has pretty simple, compact and well defined semantics. Too simple and compact for confort - a little syntatic sugar would have made the language a lot less verbose.

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Java's fundamental problems are well beyond reach of any syntactic sugar.

Please explain these fundamental problems.

Generic type erasure and primitive boxing are two examples that cause daily headaches for many.

Generic specialization is being worked on.

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