What are the benefits of Java's types erasure?

Question

I read a tweet today that said:

It\'s funny when Java users complain about type erasure, which is the only thing Java got right, while ignoring all th

Answer 1

avoids c++-like code bloat because the same code is used for multiple types; however, type erasure requires virtual dispatch whereas the c++-code-bloat approach can do non-virtually dispatched generics