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I don't think there was much backwards compatibility breaks, but in generics C# broke forward compatibility of the bytecode, whereas Java didn't (they used type erasure for their generics).

With that said, C# almost always breaks forward compatibility. It seems like a somewhat odd design goal to have for a language nowadays.




I'm sure you probably know this but that kind of breaking change (to the degree that we can agree that it even exists) is not a C# breaking change since generics aren't a purely-language-feature the way they are in Java. I don't have the C# spec handy but I'm pretty sure that it doesnt prescribe that generics are reified.




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