Am 15.07.2018 um 08:44 schrieb Alexey Raga:
If you do bits manipulations you want Words, not Ints! Java doesn't have unsigned numbers, so bits manipulations are insanely hard in Java since you _always_ need account to the sign bits. This the _real_ problem.
You don't use bit manipulation in (idiomatic) Java, you use EnumSets (use case 1) or one of the various infinite-digits math libraries (use case 2). I have yet to see a third use case, and there's already libraries for these, so I do not see a problem. All of which, of course, just elaborates the point you were making around this paragraph: Each language lives in its own niche, and when coming from a different niche one usually sees all kinds of problems but has yet to encounter the solutions. Regards, Jo