4 years after, I still don't understand!

Why does everyone hate Java so much?

To me it seems like it's got it's strengths and weakness like any other language.

I'm aware of it's weakness but I don't think that the amount of hatred upon the whole language is justified.

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Moving the goal posts now to
retaining unsigned semantics
huh?

It's still easy to convert between unsigned and signed while preserving order. Are you going to require we meet all the obscure unsigned quirks of C now too?

No, you don't need to use a larger data type to read an unsigned integer. Not to mention this entire example is completely contrived, if you ever got into this situation you have bigger problems to worry about than allocating (and good heavens, having the gc collect) 4 extra bytes.