Java 27 is only boring on the surface (mostlynerdless.de)

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[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Iirc, the decision was made for performance reasons and reducing programmer confusion. Even in the .net world, unsigned ints are against the CLS spec and using them in c# has compiler warnings. Really the only reason to care about unsigned ints is reducing memory footprint...which case Java shouldnt be your choice lang to begin with.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

I understand that reasoning but the dude literally forgot to add uints. Which is funny I think. Then they never fixed it (this math library stuff is just a weird band aid).

Today it is less important I guess, but back then it sure wasn't. I also don't really care what C# specs say, that has nothing to do with the story IMO.

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