Wasn't it too late? I thought the reason they went the type erasure path was because they didn't want to take the compat hit of changing the bytecode that much.

Wasn't it too late? I thought the reason they went the type erasure path was because they didn't want to take the compat hit of changing the bytecode that much. Is that not accurate? Maybe if they had done generics originally it'd have been built in to the runtime. Isn't this potentially going to happen in Java10 or something?