Unsafe type casting in Ceylon (through Java)

unsafeCast_.java

import ceylon.language.SharedAnnotation$annotation$;
import com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.java.metadata.*;
import com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.java.runtime.model.TypeDescriptor;

import java.lang.Object;

@Ceylon(major = 8)
@Method
public class unsafeCast_ {

    private unsafeCast_() {
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @SharedAnnotation$annotation$
    @TypeInfo("T")
    @TypeParameters({@TypeParameter(value = "T", variance = Variance.IN)})
    public static <T> T unsafeCast(@Ignore final TypeDescriptor $reified$T,
                                   @Name("o") @TypeInfo("ceylon.language::Anything") final Object o) {
        return (T) o;
    }
}