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> It also has reified generics (IMHO a good thing from a performance perspective), which bakes in a particular way of doing parametric polymorphism. Reified ge
by jeswin 3y ago
> It also has reified generics (IMHO a good thing from a performance perspective), which bakes in a particular way of doing parametric polymorphism.
Reified generics need additional support, and if you're using type erasure you didn't need any support. What's missing then when it comes to supporting mainstream languages - HKT?
- titzer 3y agoYou can't use the .NET standard libraries that have type parameters if you simply erase (which is what I meant by bring your own libraries).