[int_19h]

It's not like this is some kind of new or unfamiliar experience. Many programmers had to deal with something like that in Java or C#, back when they didn't have generics. There's a reason why both got them eventually.

[pjmlp]

The anti-generic folks usually ignore that the industry was built with non generic languages, and largely decided to adopt generics.

It isn't as if we never coded without generics before.