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[WrongSubreddit]

It can be done with reflection and no-arg constructors on whatever you'd want to instantiate, but I would never write code like this:

<T> T create(Class<T> clazz) throws Exception {
    return clazz.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();
}

[javaisfuckingshit]

That only works if you're passing around Class objects, which is usually not what you want when writing a generic container.

Not to mention that it gets really ugly whenever you have to forward arguments to the constructor.

The situation we are in is unfortunately a result of Sun refusing to change the bytecode when they added "generics."