[zbjornson]

Ehh... When there are many questions on SO asking how to read a file in Java and the answers all require about a dozen LOC and have hundreds of upvotes [0,1,2] I think I agree with the earlier comment that it's more a barrier to distribution and acquisition of modules. There are plenty of tiny npm modules that do less than a Java wrapper for easily reading files would.

[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4716503/reading-a-plain-t... [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/326390/how-do-i-create-a-... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3402735/what-is-simplest-...

[cm2187]

I am not familiar enough with java which I assumed was a match for .net. But one line of code in .net.

IO.File.ReadAllText(FilePath)

[zbjornson]

Yeah, .net is way nicer than java and your argument holds pretty well in that case.

[fauigerzigerk]

What's wrong with

  new String(Files.readAllBytes(path));

or

  new String(Files.readAllBytes(path), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

?