> Since Fantom doesn't even let you write generic classes, I'm guessing
> they special case their collections in the compiler.

That really bugs me.  When I began using Java I was really impressed
at what I would now call dogfooding, that it was pretty much built in
itself at least as far as the library goes, whereas I don't think that
was true for any of the BASICs I'd used beforehand.  It was true of C,
C++ and Pascal which I used before Java but for some reason the
importance of it didn't really click until Java.

To see Fantom provide built-in generic types only seems like a serious
step backwards, like not having lambdas or not having recursion.

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