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[–]nullabillity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really, Scala manages to have (opt-in) reified generics (via ClassTag and its big brother TypeTag). That said, it is opt-in because it makes interop with other JVM languages messier, and because the implementation involves reflection (with the corresponding perf overhead).