Why should I care that Java doesn't have reified generics?

Question

This came up as a question I asked in an interview recently as something the candidate wished to see added to the Java language. It\'s commonly-identified as a pain that Jav

Answer 1

It's not that you will achieve anything extraordinary. It will just be simpler to understand. Type erasure seems like a hard time for beginners, and it ultimately requires one's understanding on the way the compiler works.

My opinion is, that generics are simply an extra that saves a lot of redundant casting.