Re: New VSI post on Youtube

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:15:03 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

And there are some horror decisions. The compiler API comes to my mind -
it takes 200 lines to do what you can do in 5 lines in C#.

Java is full of stuff like that.

The java.io package may seem a bit complex, but it makes perfect sense
when you learn the structure.

Until you try to include niceties like select/poll. Then you get into a
whole mess of extra classes/methods.

I suppose, given its origin in the 1990s, the Java designers thought all
nonblocking I/O should be handled through threads ...