[emjaygee]

It would be super difficult to represent value types, generics and the reflection metadata in the JVM without building some kind of giant abstraction layer. MSIL is rich, maybe overly rich. If you get rid of value types and generics from C# you're basically left with ... Java.

[nickik]

Watch this awesome keynote by Brian Goetz, he talks about valie types and generics.

Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2y5Pv4yN0b0

[Gurkenmaster]

Not quite. There are still some features that are not possible on the jvm like async/await.