Still Unsafe: The Major Bug in Java 6 That Turned into a Java 9 Feature | Takipi Blog

Still Unsafe: The Major Bug in Java 6 That Turned into a Java 9 Feature | Takipi Blog

  What does the future hold for sun.misc.Unsafe? With 2015 having just drawn to a close, we thought this would be a good opportunity to do a post-mortem of one of the hottest debates within the Java community over the past year. By looking at the title most of you have probably already started developing a sour taste in your mouths and an angry feeling in your gut, but in case you've missed on the action, let us recap what all the fuss was about. New Post: Still Unsafe: The Major Bug in Java 6 That Turned into a Java 9 Feature https://t.co/dqsjYpWXjb pic.twitter.com/B0YPLo8HMS The bottom line: sun.misc.Unsafe isn't going anywhere The whole debate started back in July when Oracle was considering the removal of what many developers rely on as one of the key API's of the JVM – the Unsafe library. The proposal suggested that Unsafe will be fully encapsulated when Java 9 is released and while the release of that version of Java is still quite far away in the future,

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