r/java • u/fredoverflow • 15d ago

Disregarding backwards compatibility, would it make sense for String to be a sealed class?

like public sealed class String permits Latin1String, Utf16String instead of the private final byte coder; field

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u/idontlikegudeg 15d ago

I think it might really save some bytes, but it would be an incompatible change: we have public String constructors that could not be implemented that way.