alt Hacker NewsI don’t think that’s the case. You can absolutely implement a type-erased language on top of the CLR. Your language will just have the same constraints of a type-erased language like Java.
Having reified generics in the CLR just lets you store more type information. There isn’t much of a trade off for CLR end-users.
Compare this to the constraints and workarounds that Kotlin and Scala have due to type-erasure on the JVM.
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cogman10 • today at 3:42 PM
You CAN do it, but it's much more difficult.
And as far as I'm aware, both kotlin and Scala don't really suffer due to type erasure.
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> Compare this to the constraints and workarounds that Kotlin and Scala have due to type-erasure on the JVM.
The creator of Scala disagrees: https://youtu.be/Xn_YpUtXWT4?t=850