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Name three limitations you have faced in your development experience.
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Answer from AI
- Memory management and performance in older versions of Java: Before the advent of HotSpot VM and more advanced garbage collectors (e.g., G1, ZGC), optimizing memory consumption and avoiding long garbage collection pauses was more challenging, especially in applications with high data volumes. It required a deeper understanding of JVM internals and manual optimization of data structures and algorithms.
- Lack of multiple implementation inheritance: In Java, a class can only inherit from one other class, which sometimes complicates design and requires the use of interfaces in combination with inheritance or delegation to achieve similar flexibility.
- Low-level interaction with the file system and network: Although Java has standard libraries, interacting with some low-level aspects of the file system (e.g., symbolic links, OS-specific file attributes) or network (e.g., raw sockets) often required using JNA, JNI, or workarounds, which complicated the code and reduced portability.