Re:JDK 8 Release Notes
by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @09:16PM
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> Let's not forget about type-erasure generics.
Type-erasure generics are a fortuitous platform decision, because its what enables languages on the platform to have a good interop story while still having a more robust type system than Java does -- case in point, Scala, and why the .NET version died.
Type-erasure generics are a fortuitous platform decision, because its what enables languages on the platform to have a good interop story while still having a more robust type system than Java does -- case in point, Scala, and why the .NET version died.