Why Haven’t They Fixed This?

Java’s turning 30, and in this talk Maurice Naftalin and Stuart Marks poke at a bunch of ancient jaw-droppers that still plague the language—think type inference that trips over the obvious, iterators that don’t handle concurrent modifications neatly, weird set‐equality quirks, zilch support for immutability, and sets that self-destruct when you tweak an element.

They’ll dive into whether these “simple” fixes really are simple, spar over different ways to tackle them, and see if we mere mortals can outthink the Java architects. Expect a fun romp through language and API design, plus ideas you can steal (or improve) to patch up Java’s rough edges.

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