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		jpollock 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Laws of Software Engineering You are communicating with future readers of the code. The presence of ConcurrentHashMap will lead future engineers into believing the code is threadsafe. This isn't true, and believing it is dangerous.

tombert 14 days ago [–]

No, they'll believe that that specific map is thread safe.

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