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by kkmickos 3994 days ago
Many people seem to be upset with Oracle, but I think they should be upset with the vendors who ship applications/libraries that depend on the "sun.*" packages.

Oracle (then Sun) have since _1998_ strongly discouraged the use of them: https://web.archive.org/web/19980215011039/http://java.sun.c...

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Fine, but why isn't the argument: "This then needs to be standardised in a Java.* package and correctly documented."

Unsafe is useful, and is evident by how popular it is. Heck even Sun/Oracle must agree because they created it for their own internal usage. So why not just go ahead and standardise it.