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by pjmlp 876 days ago
Note that as documented in the history of F# HOPL paper, .NET already had a generics prototype before 1.0 release, Microsoft decided to go ahead without generics to avoid delaying it further until they were stable.

Also breaking everything a couple of times is why most corporations are nowadays stuck in a Python 2 / 3 parallel world in .NET Framework / .NET Core , or in Xamarin.Forms / MAUI, UWP / WinUI,...