> Also it’s not an idea that “poisons” other languages. It’d be pretty uneconomical to preserve generics in the runtime representations of any language—c++ does

> Also it’s not an idea that “poisons” other languages. It’d be pretty uneconomical to preserve generics in the runtime representations of any language—c++ doesn’t do this either and it heterogenous approach (opposed to java’s homogenous approach) has its own set of drawbacks (bloated code size, for instance) You know anything about .NET?