Well, you are right it reminded me of method overloading. Otherwise I think time will tell. In the end generics are just types with parameters, for creating typ

Well, you are right it reminded me of method overloading. Otherwise I think time will tell. In the end generics are just types with parameters, for creating typed permutations _at_compile_time_ of functions/maps etc.. And as you said, java worked quite a while without them.