Pre-generic Java required (un)boxing and runtime casts everywhere, so it wasn’t really safer than a dynamic language, just far more tedious. I’m thankful that w

Pre-generic Java required (un)boxing and runtime casts everywhere, so it wasn’t really safer than a dynamic language, just far more tedious. I’m thankful that we pretty much burned that code to the ground and started over. Those casts are still in the bytecode for the verifier, but at least we no longer have to reread them, and we have warnings when we violate the assurances that they won’t fail.