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by geodel 1799 days ago
Loom will help folks who prefer writing straightforward Java code instead of some random reactive library with obscure exception handling and poor to impossible debuggability.

Now I get it is hard for many folks to understand that part. Just like at my workplace people think it is impossible to write micro service without SpringBoot.

> Loom could help if you had blocking APIs to start, but you get much better results if you just resolve to use async, non-blocking wrapped in ReactiveX.

There might be billions of lines of legacy code which would adapt to Loom with minimal changes but impossible to turn in ReactiveX etc without enormous investment and risk. Your ideas are rather simplistic for real world.