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Re:Laws of Software Engineering by jpollock on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:47PM (#47856471)
You are communicating with future readers of the code. The presence of ConcurrentHashMap will lead future engineers into believing the code is threadsafe. This isn't true, and believing it is dangerous.
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Re:Laws of Software Engineering by tombert on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @07:48PM (#47856484)
No, they'll believe that that specific map is thread safe.
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