[saagarjha]

This is kind of a hot take but I actually prefer debugging races in C/C++ for this reason. Yes, the language prescribes insane semantics (basically none) when it happens, but in practice you’ll get memory corruption or other noisy issues pretty often, and the fact that races are mostly illegal means you can write something like thread sanitizer without needing source code changes to indicate semantics. Meanwhile in Java you’ll never have UB but often you’ll have two fields be subtly out of sync and it’s a lot harder to track this kind of thing down.