Java is Unsound: The Industry Perspective | HackerNoon
Recently <a href="https://medium.com/@nadamin" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="a01b7ea46ac4" data-action-value="a01b7ea46ac4" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" target="_blank">Nada Amin</a> and I discovered that <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/java" target="_blank">Java</a> and Scala are unsound. We submitted the finding and related discussion to OOPSLA, an academic conference on object-oriented <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/programming" target="_blank">programming</a>. It has been great to see the paper making rounds in industrial circles, but there also seems to be a lot of confusion and I think that’s our fault. The paper was written for academics, and so it doesn’t discuss the issue from industry’s perspective. I’m crunching on a deadline right now, so let me write an abridged version of the industry-targeted paper here, focusing just on Java.