Comment by tigershark

Erased generics are awful compared to proper generics like C#. If you ever used both of them it should be clear as the sun. In C# you don't have to pass around the type in a method parameter and use reflection. I’m missing how you can claim that the languages on the runtime with proper generics are more difficult to adapt to other paradigms given the extremely fast evolution of C# and F# compared to Java that for example received closures something like 10 years after C#.