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Where you there when generics got brought in? What was that like from MS's side?

• shawnb576 12y ago
  Yeah - this is where Anders shines. Generics were brought in primarily to avoid boxing/unboxing costs of value types, but really are incredibly powerful when used properly. And I'll say that generics in C#/.NET are done very well. Every time I use Java, I want to use generics until I remember Java's generics are confusing and almost useless. I really miss having them when doing work in other languages, even with some of the covariance gotchas, they're just amazingly good.
  • MichaelGG 12y ago
    I thought the CLR team had no plan/way to ship genetics in the CLR, and C# would have had to gone with erasure, like Java. That the first C# with generics came from across the Atlantic. Isn't that so?