I view non-reified types as a mistake in Java, because it's easy to work-around: <T> void doStuff(Class<T> type) There, now you are guaranteed by the compiler

I view non-reified types as a mistake in Java, because it's easy to work-around: <T> void doStuff(Class<T> type) There, now you are guaranteed by the compiler to have the type of `T` at runtime. With this simple a work-around, it seems silly that they just didn't properly reify them and call it a day. That being said, it's also such an easy work-around that it's simply annoying at this point when I need to include the extra parameter(s) to get the type.