The VarHandle API isn't ergonomic like Unsafe; this being for power
users is irrelevant to the ergonomics of the API. Instead, it's fairly
verbose with setup ceremony. Now, I personally don't mind that too
much and more interested in the features it provides but I'm not
surprised by David's reaction.
People already provide nicer APIs on top of Unsafe in their own
projects, and I suspect this will be even more so with VH.
And that's absolutely fine with us. We wanted to provide a secure,
safe, fast substrate that code generators and brave library writers
alike will use; if people want to wrap it, we view that as success, not
failure.
- Re: API review of VarHandles Brian Goetz
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