But the JVM not having reified generics is a mostly a blessing for Scala. With reified generics, your language's type system can essentially be only as powerful as the VM's type system, and I think it's clear that Scala today wouldn't be the same if Sun had gone the reified generics route.
(Still, it would be nice to have specialized generic containers for some primitive types in the JVM)
(Still, it would be nice to have specialized generic containers for some primitive types in the JVM)