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It would be super difficult to represent value types, generics and the reflection metadata in the JVM without building some kind of giant abstraction layer. MS
by emjaygee 12y ago
It would be super difficult to represent value types, generics and the reflection metadata in the JVM without building some kind of giant abstraction layer. MSIL is rich, maybe overly rich. If you get rid of value types and generics from C# you're basically left with ... Java.
- nickik 12y agoWatch this awesome keynote by Brian Goetz, he talks about valie types and generics. Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0 http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0
- Gurkenmaster 12y agoNot quite. There are still some features that are not possible on the jvm like async/await.