[fauigerzigerk]

The most horrible thing about it is that all primitives have to be boxed using huge amounts of memory. And there are lots of other bad consequences like not being able to call a constructor for a type parameter. But Java's horrible generics implementation is only my second most pressing problem. The first being the lack of structured value types (i.e struct in C#).

I am rewriting a C# app in Java right now and I'm being forced into extremely awful hacks to prevent memory consumption from exploding. To illustrate how bad the situation is let me tell you that I'm seriously thinking about rewriting everything in C++ :-)