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by dmm 3850 days ago
No it wasn't necessary to maintain backwards compatibility. Type erasure was implemented to allow libraries to upgrade to generics without breaking compatibility with existing applications.
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wtetzner 3850 days ago
How is that not backwards compatibility?
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codingbinary 3849 days ago
The one is on a language level, the other on an application/framework level.
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