Ruby's Strings and What Java Can Learn From Them

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Ruby's Strings aggregate a collection of bytes and an encoding, allowing
for IO to avoid transcoding, regular expressions to execute against raw
bytes, and 7-bit strings to be compactly represented. Only the last item
has been adopted by Java. To make matters worse, most Java APIs depend on
Java's string representation, making them incompatible with alternative
languages like Ruby. We'll explore the advantages of Ruby's string compared
to Java's and discuss options for improving Java's string support in the
future.

25 min talk

- Charlie
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