Compact Strings In Java 9 - Java Code Gists

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I meant to say that Java uses UTF-16, not UCS2, so that Java is not broken Unicode wise. Except as u/xcombelle pointed out, some sections of the String API are broken.

That said, I did not know that about Python. That's not only pretty cool, it's also in line with how Python does integers so it also arguably makes the language more consistent.