[adgjlsfhk1]

imo it's worse than that. of they'd just hid the boxing in the runtime, Java would be a kind of slow language that didn't feel awful. by exposing the unboxed primitives to the user, they created a horrible duality of incompatible types.

[brabel]

You Guys haven’t used Java since the 90’s right? Boxed types convert to primitive values automatically, you never need an explicit cast! What horrible duality are you talking about?