That’s a cool background. Can you share more about your product?

I’m also struggling to see the great benefit of generics apart from “it’s quicker than using interface types, trust us”.

I didn’t know a ring buffer was a “formal” data structure thingy but implemented one for a toy multiplayer game I’m building very slowly. There’s a “circular list” of the 5 last received messages from the server and if the position as indicated by the server deviated above a certain threshold I warp the player back to where they should be according to the server.

I knew these message objects were gonna be allocated/nuked constantly so I just have 5 one pointing to the other and the last pointing back to the first and I go around overwriting them.