Those are not show-stoppers, just annoyances. Generics make it oh so much nicer to do some stuff but lack of them wasn't exactly something that I missed, just

Those are not show-stoppers, just annoyances. Generics make it oh so much nicer to do some stuff but lack of them wasn't exactly something that I missed, just that I wished some libraries had for the cases you mentioned (generic map/reduce/math/etc.)